The reason for this folderol is that Mr. Putin, though not thrilled with the idea, yielded the presidency three years ago in accordance with a constitutional provision limiting him to two consecutive terms.
Was it really worth ditching them for the sake of this invented folderol?
In this folderol, there is no psychological subtext for the actors to impart; the nature of the characters that sense of willful self-inflation that makes the women sidesplitting foils for each other is inherent in the breathing it takes to make Mamet's lines play.
If there was anything to that six-degrees-of-separation folderol, she must have been equally related to the entire population of the continent.
Both pages work fine for most people; browsers are tolerant of all sorts of folderol.
Take a longer-term view of the stock market, for example (in the chart below), and you can see that stocks have been falling fairly steadily since mid-September, in part because of worry about this budget folderol.
Van Helsing has to try and clear himself, but all of that is a bunch of folderol to get us into the new epidemic: Dracula's kid named Countess Marya Zaleska, played by Gloria Holden, is cruising the streets, much like her dad did, for comely female victims.
It is only fair to report that on the night I saw "Wicked" the spectators gave this fourteen-million-dollar piece of folderol a standing ovation, a phenomenon that the musical inadvertently explains in a number called "Dancing Through Life": "Life is painless / For the brainless".
The White House would have done better not to overreact to such frivolous nuggets of tabloid folderol.
