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...clever phrase and the apt insight. "To take off all your clothes and lie down beside some unclothed larger person is a terribly risky business. The odds are stacked almost as heavily against you as in the New York State Lottery. He could hurt you: He could laugh at you; he could take one look at your naked aging body and turn away in ill concealed, embarrassed distate. He could turn out to be awkward, selfish, inept even totally incompetent." So says Vinnie Miner...
...stage have been on a long trek of self-discovery." A native New Yorker, she performed in small theaters on both coasts before being Great-White-Wayed by Mike Nichols, who oversaw the new production. Goldberg's natural sense of humor did not find much to laugh at or learn from negative critics "who have assessed my work in New York. There is nothing in their works that can help me improve my performance...
...contras, who are fighting a war the Reagan administration has admitted is unminnable. Forget the fact that American Monty paid for the mines that appeared magically in Member's harbors. Forget all that, examine Reagan's Latin American politics with the cool eye of realpolillk, and have a good laugh. No matter how you slice it, Reagan's handling of Nicaragua has been monumentally...
...summation absentmindedly referred to "the policies of weakness of the last four years," as if he had traveled in a time machine back to 1980. Mondale taxed the President with not knowing that submarine-launched missiles are "recallable"; he meant the exact opposite. Reagan got a big laugh by deriding a TV ad showing Mondale on the deck of an aircraft carrier, which the President identified as the Nimitz; if Mondale's policies had been followed, said Reagan, "he'd be deep in the water" because the Nimitz would never have been built. Actually, Mondale would have been...
...destroyed the crop. To recover the extra cost, she tacks a 25? surcharge onto each scoop of the ice cream. Says Rose, a graduate of the University of Chicago Business School and a former student of Nobel-prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "I look at the inflation numbers and I laugh because I see my own costs going bonkers...