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Ladies and Gentlemen...
...stock car racing, and 31 weekends a year, from January to November, they are transformed. Exchanging their designer jeans and Christian Dior shirts for fire-resistant jumpsuits, they climb behind the wheels of souped-up sedans?Chevrolets, Fords, Oldsmobiles-?or a Sunday afternoon of racing. And once the gentlemen have started their engines, they often revert to type, crowding each other, even banging fenders, at 170 m.p.h., just as the mythic forebears of their sport dueled with the revenooers on the back roads twisting through the Appalachian Mountains...
Before the day ended, there was one more graceful gesture. Begin rose to give his toast, and, after suggesting that Carter be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he said, "Now, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to pay tribute to a man who is the main adviser of the President of this great country-a gentleman who did so much day and night with his inventive mind, with his great learning and knowledge-Cyrus Vance." The guests rose in a prolonged ovation. When the self-effacing Secretary of State finally had the courage to look up, his eyes were...
Physical peculiarities kept none of those gentlemen from the highest office, but some of them might have had a hard time getting there today. For Americans now even hold strong notions about the cut of a Chief Executive's clothes. Harry Truman incensed many button-down traditionalists by hacking around his Key West vacation retreat in criminally garish sports shirts. The spectacle of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the flamboyant cape and floppy hats that he loved to flaunt raised the blood pressure of old-school Republicans...
...interpretation. The Boston Shakespeare Company falls somewhere between farce and a successfully realized dramatic presentation. As it is, the production averages out to mediocrity; a relatively uninspired rendition of a relatively uninspired play. Perhaps The Boston Shakespeare Company should have done Shakespeare and themselves a favor and allowed Two Gentlemen of Verona to remain in the oblivion it so sadly deserves...