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...reporters that his stubbornness on the budget was partly inspired by an indignity--the President had forced him to exit Air Force One by the rear door upon returning from the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. Hours later, when Gingrich appeared for a press conference, he had a prepared text in hand, as if trying to regain his composure...
...Wolfe's attempts to open up the play to outside influences, he simplifies and limits the text. All the hammering percussion cannot drum up the menace his actors fail to instill. All the bewitching lighting effects cannot etherealize an Ariel (Aunjanue Ellis) who delivers a version of "Full fathom five..." devoid of gorgeous heartbreak...
...give them an overview of the landmarks, and I try to insinuate quite a few things about how to read a literary text," Damrosch says...
...budget deal he sold as a valiant attempt to cut the deficit, lower interest rates and make the tax system more progressive. What looked courageous two years ago was looking costly last week when Clinton stood before a well-heeled crowd of donors in Houston. And so he abandoned text and principle and ad-libbed a confession. "Probably there are people in this room still mad at me at that budget because you think I raised your taxes too much," he said. "It might surprise you to know I think I raised them too much...
...came away with the thought--melancholy, unhopeful--that it is getting to be time for Americans to clarify their minds about integration. Time for blacks and whites to stop indulging themselves--as Farrakhan does--in separatist fantasies and to return to the text of that infinitely superior speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at the march on Washington in 1963. Time to return to the ideal of an individualist, integrated, color-blind society--and to understand that that ideal will require yet more time and hard work. But perhaps I also am guilty of a sentimentality without a program...