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...gone, has been set in the jazz age and augmented with music by Duke Ellington. The semimodern dress and judicious pruning of the most convoluted language makes the text accessible, and its cynicism about the rich is timeless. But the play's rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien to our own. Thus Bedford wisely plays the extravagant Timon as a bit of a buffoon, easily gulled, while his fair-weather friends...
...Paul Tsongas on the highroad and Gennifer Flowers on the low, Bill Clinton is doing phone interviews in a hotel room, struggling to keep his presidential hopes alive in the New Hampshire primary. Finishing his chores with the press ("Betcha I said something you can take out of context," he observes wearily), Clinton wanders over to a table where staffers are discussing their image as reported in the press. He claps James Carville, his chief political strategist, on the shoulder and says, "You weird guys gotta stick together...
...freedom of access bill fails to provide clear answers to these questions, even though the U.S. Supreme Court, in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware, ruled that government must exercise "precision of regulation" in its prohibition of illegal activities "when such conduct occurs in the context of constitutionally protected activity...
...John McArthur is acting...in a way that showsthat he is trying to deal with the broader issuesof the University," says Education School DeanJerome T. Murphy. "Within that context he isacting like a team player...
...fundamental as the right to a safety. At its most basic level, society is intended to safeguard its members from the chaos of the state of nature. But can life in many urban areas really be described as anything other than "nasty, brutish and short?" In this context, it is hardly surprising that a whole segment of the population feels disconnected from society, a society that cannot or will not protect them...