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...background music, the producers rented a tape from Samuel French of the Peter Link score for the original production (although it is not credited in the program), and what was modest and tuneful from a handful of peasant-outfitted musicians on Broadway here sounds like corny, department-store Muzak. The costumes, surprisingly, are the most professional element of the show; clearly, a lot of money has been spent on them. Some, like The Seducer's white tails, cane, and hat, are noticeably dazzling; others are trim and colorful, with a surprising amount of attention paid to detail...
...crucial journey back to full respectability in scientific knowledge. Both Nixon and Johnson not only distrusted eggheads in the scientific world but also cut their influence and money. Maybe part of the problem was the ineptitude of these two in the world of machines. Nixon could not run a tape recorder. Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wristwatch and once had to halt his automobile to solve the problem of turning on the windshield squirter...
...suspects marooned on an island, each having good reason to suspect the other of murder. The characters are all invited, through various ruses, to Indian Island as the guests of a host who never appears. Once settled on the island, the unknown host accuses all his guests in a tape recording of committing or acquiescing to murders. The guests die off, as the suspense builds and the characters realize that one of their number is a murderer...
...Moscow as requested on Feb. 1 and 2,1972, and asked for the reason for the delay in sending the weapons which the Soviet leaders had promised me. Brezhnev said he was personally to blame. It was due, he said, to the necessary paperwork, the inevitable red tape, and similar things. "I am not convinced of that," I said...
...complacent, even proud. John Connally, who was Treasury Secretary when the gold window slammed shut, boasted that he had acquired a reputation as "a sort of bullyboy on the manicured playing fields of international finance." Nixon's own attitude was immortalized by a casual comment on a Watergate tape: "I don't give a shit about the [Italian] lira...