First of all, she's up against the comic dynamo Martin Short, who works like a Trojan in the starring role, as well as such Broadway stalwarts as Dick Latessa and Terrence Mann.
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The evening is built less on style than on hard-driving enthusiasm, a trait perfectly embodied by its leading lady, Foster, who has the pearly toothed, clean-scrubbed glow of the young Marie Osmond and works like a Trojan throughout.
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Every now and then he would work like a Trojan . . . . But generally he allowed plenty of time to sit and kick things around . . . . And every afternoon Nixon took a nap . " . ..