Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...other, more serious, half of the problem lies in the book's format. Broder says he wanted to let his politicians speak for themselves-and do they speak. The author's confidence in his subjects' political futures may be partially born out by their mastery of the Harmless Generalization, the Well-Intentioned Cliche and the Uncontroversial Piety. Normally a tough and inquisitive journalist, Broder lets answers like "If you look at the history of Western Civilization, the facts are pretty clear that man's progress is accelerated in periods when...we allow markets to allocate resources," (Rep. Phil Gramm...
...this is well-known to Toobin, as is the real problem we are having with the press. It is time, and this is the point that voters must understand, that we stop asking the question, can Anderson win? and begin to ask the question, should...
...only serious problem with this As You Like It stems from the very overflow of energy that makes each individual characterization so effective. The ART troupe comes to the Loeb fresh from an outdoor staging of the show at City Plaza, and its dimensions haven't been properly scaled down. Some carefully planned comic routines fail to connect because of gestures that are too large, movements too exaggerated, timing off. When Rosalind decides to flee the court with her confidante, the women give a victory whoop that flies into the air and then falls with a clunk on the stage...
...apparition that haunts the final scene at the Loeb epitomizes his achievement. Modern directors of this play face an annoying problem--Shakespeare's inclusion of an actress representing Hymen to cement the multiple marriages at the end. Much of today's audience can't even identify which deity that is, and the idea of a nuptial goddess seems inapposite to this As You Like It's earthiness, anyway. Belgrader breathes coarse, jocular humor into the tired device, turning Hymen into an earth-mother who rises on an elevator, with four false breasts, giant phalluses sticking medusa-like from her head...
...effort to come up with more scoring punch, MacAusland moved midfielder Maureen Finn to attack, and promoted Laura DiBonaventura from the junior varsity. But even without the new faces, goals shouldn't be a problem...