Word: firmer
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...Rough Crossing is first and foremost a farce--something that is not always precisely realized in this version. While the direction is credited to Chip Rossetti, the staging seems largely determined by the individual actors. The show does finally come together but it would have been more coherent with firmer direction...
...seem to have no idea what they're doing. This scene is only funny if the princes actually believe what they're saying. O'Keefe and Watkins treat it as a cabaret performance and sing the whole song facing front and rocking back and forth on their feet. A firmer directorial hand could have saved these scenes...
...blasted Bush on China and Haiti, and has indicated his desire to predicate foreign policy less on balance-of-power considerations and more on opposing tyranny. His recommendations on Bosnia--to begin limited air strikes and help the Bosnians with weapons--even embarrassed the Bush administration into taking a firmer line on the conflict. With Clinton, it seems clear that American foreign policy will work more toward democracy and human rights...
...this year's presidential campaign, the Bush team hopes to deal with the deficit by not dealing with it at all -- that is, by blaming Congress and calling for a balanced-budget amendment. The Democrats' likely presidential nominee, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, is on somewhat firmer ground when he advocates slower growth in outlays for Social Security and Medicare in addition to "means testing" that would peg the level of benefits to a recipient's income. Those measures at least would slow the deficit's growth. But Clinton has yet to offer a persuasive plan for reducing the deficit...
...with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the mid-1980s has continued to shadow his campaign, even more so since his candidacy has begun to enjoy some success. No sooner had he won the New Hampshire primary than a lead editorial in the New York Times said voters needed a "firmer fix" on whether his "dread disease" might return...