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...Defense Secretary's biggest challenge will be to diminish the hostility and mistrust between the White House and the Pentagon, which came into full bloom when Clinton clashed with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell on the gay issue. "Not since Carter has a President been so disliked by the military," said a Joint Chiefs staff officer. Uniformed personnel ranging from privates to generals routinely refer to their Commander in Chief as "Slick Willy" and "Draft Dodger." Beyond the financial affronts like Clinton's proposed government pay freeze, which will save $18 billion in military spending, the ranks are rife with...
...acting throughout the play is almost uniformly excellent. Even the supporting cast is funny--Colin Stokes, in particular, is fantastic as Gavin, a drug counselor just discovering the wonder of controlled substances. Bess Wohl, as T.V. reporter Corinne Le Mans, is irritating in her best scenes, flapping around the stage like a bird about to take flight, but gives the single funniest performance of the entire play after meeting "Lucy...
...former diplomat who was Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary. When teamed with managing director Richard Darman, who as Bush's former Budget Director brings financial as well as political expertise, the group seems like a Republican Administration in exile. And its members hope to lure in another noted nonbanker, Colin Powell, when he steps down this fall as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
What the Duvals require is a miracle, the restoration of Olivier, the sunny source of their little universe's gravitational power, and after the passage of a few years, Holland provides them with that astonishment. He appears in the unlikely form of an adolescent Parisian street hustler (Gregoire Colin). But the Duvals, even skeptical Nadine, are not inclined to question him closely. If he is a lie, he is the saving lie they all need, and in the end he does accidentally provide the definitive answer to the mystery that has riven them...
Walling far outshines the other cast members. Kitt Harasaki, as Dr. Mitchell, seems unnaturally stiff and Colin Stokes, the husband, appears effective as a paternalistic clod but uncomfortable with the language...