Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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LIFE DURING WARTIME. Keith Reddin's mordant comedy at California's Berkeley Rep depicts war outside the front door: burglars, muggers and other paranoia inducers who make homeowners yearn for security, and alarm salesmen who prey on their fears...
...throat-searing firewater that il padrone sometimes served with espresso if he was in a very good mood. Just as pasta has gone upscale and pricey, so has this Italian peasant brandy, usually colorless, that is distilled from grape husks and skins after the juice has been pressed to make wine. These days, many of Italy's top vintners are aging and refining grappa and infusing it with herb and fruit flavors so that its raw edge has a satiny finish. At fashionable American trattorias it has become an acceptable alternative to Delamain or 12-year-old Macallan...
Dread of aging and death, whether by illness or murder, hovers over many of Spark's characters, but that does not make the author glum. Unlike Margaret, who is criticized by her husband for liking "art to have an exalted message whereas if there was anything he hated in art, as in life, it was a sermon," Spark seems to believe that the only sensible way to consider serious questions -- religion and guilt, insanity and illumination, free will and destiny -- is with lightly lethal humor...
...United States. To generations of American schoolchildren, Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portrayed by Channing and, more romantically, by Washington Irving in 1828: "a man of great and inventive genius" whose "ambition was lofty and noble." No wonder that Pope Pius IX wanted to make the discoverer of America a saint, or that more places in the English- speaking world are named for the Admiral of the Ocean Sea than for any other historical personage except Queen Victoria...
...personal -- stands at a record 190% of our gross national product. Historically, 140% would be a more reasonable level. But the best way to cut the debt isn't necessarily to lay everybody off and have a depression. Massive bankruptcies would wipe out a lot of debt but also make us a lot poorer. No, muddling through is a better idea, working down the debt over many years. By making things for export rather than for our own consumption, by spending more on infrastructure and less on shopping centers, and by spending less on the elderly and more on preschoolers...