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Student protesters saw the University'sinvitation to Powell as a tacit approval of themilitary's policy...
...political gain. Moreover, her account is ultimately uncheckable: only two people were in the room. But even if true, some editors question its relevance. It took place before Clinton was President, and one essential element -- that he was an imperfect husband -- is not exactly news. There has been a tacit standard that his pre-presidential peccadillos were absolved when he and his wife discussed them on 60 Minutes during the campaign...
...balance of the cast, also from London, is workmanlike, save for Nuala Willis, whose keening songs redeem that most archaic of theatrical ploys, the chorus. The set, a vast wall of rusted metal panels that bang like thunder and tumble away at key moments, is effective but excessive, a tacit confession of shaky faith in the power of the play's words. That doubt is foolish. Medea is the greatest role ever written for a woman, fiercer than Lady Macbeth, more lovelorn than Phedre. Despite Rigg's shortcomings as Euripides' virago, the role makes her the odds-on contender...
Student protesters saw the Unversity'sinvitation to Powell as a tacit approval of themilitary's policy...
...gaggle of hawkish Senators, who quickly denounced the Russians and clamored for a cut-off of foreign aid. The tacit recognition of the ubiquity of spying, it seems, has turned into petulant indignation, while at the same time, the vigilant oversight that characterized the Cold War has collapsed into bumbling blindness...