Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production values of Black Snow scream for attention. The stark stage design by Antony McDonald and lighting design by Scott Zielinski are stunning in combination, but unlike other grand gestures like the sets for When We Dead Awaken and Misalliance, these sets aren't particularly illuminating of the themes or larger symbols at work in the play. The conversion of the ART stage into backstage at the Moscow Art Theatre is the one meaningfully creative exception...
...have a clear line long enough to have an actual conversation," he says. Bureau chief John Kohan, who returned to New York City last week to help editors close the issue, probed the Russian mind in an essay reflecting his four years in Moscow. "Just because they have McDonald's and Barbie dolls, we shouldn't expect they'll think and act like Americans," he says. That is precisely why we hope you'll find our report a fascinating window into a complex, evolving society...
Clinton himself is easy for us. Getting coffee at local McDonald's restaurants, working his way through down-town crowds of inner-city residents--these are the tools of retail politics that got him elected governor five times...
Also associated with a Clinton administration: marijuana, hog-calling and jogging to McDonald's. And let us not forget "Socks"--first cat in the White House since Amy Carter's "Snookles," or whatever it was called...
...SYMBOLISM, AT LEAST, IS UNMISTAKABLE: after defeating a President regarded by most voters as out of touch with the nation's problems, Bill Clinton is cutting a different figure. He went jogging one morning last week in Washington, stopped on the way back at a McDonald's two blocks from the White House, ordered a cup of coffee and started to chat up the locals. One homeless man explained that he had been out of work for three years. A woman said she prayed for him every night. "That's why I go ((to McDonald's)) at home," Clinton said...