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...fireworks ad that Farrell spotted in a dirty magazine; on the album, the phrase porno for pyros is also used as a lyrical description of last year's L.A. uprising. That kind of juxtaposition -- psychedelic sexuality matched with social commentary -- is the strength of the album. The wild abandon of the imagination is connected with the empirical world. "Ever since the riots/ All I really wanted/ Was a black girlfriend," croons Farrell on one song, a droll commentary on capricious white liberal guilt...
...review" quickly degenerates into a question-and-answer session where the students abandon any pretension of having paid attention all semester and the professor any hope that they did. The audience asks thinly disguised questions directly from the exam sheet, and more often then not, the professor responds with a neatly packaged answer--dashing the hopes of anyone who bothered to prepare that they haven't spent their time and effort in vain...
...suits the Machiavellian purposes of chief of staff Bob Alexander (played with joyously evil relish by Frank Langella). As his name suggests, he combines the less attractive traits of Bob Haldeman and Alexander Haig. He's been running Mitchell (whom Kline also plays), and he's not about to abandon power gracefully. Besides, this putz should be a pushover...
Clinton must abandon this thinking, and adopt instead an approach that is likely to advance America's interests. The best objection to "aggressive" trade policies is not that they may harm others (which they do) or that they undermine the multilateral process of trade liberalization that has served the world well for 40 years (which they also do); to emphasize such points can seem naive and unrealistic. The best objection is that such policies actually do the most harm, in the end, to the aggressor...
Robert Feldstein, projects the uncouth Frank with energy and enthusiasm--Feldstein's wholehearted abandon even becomes disturbing. His soliloquies of terror at the passage of time and his grandfather clock are particularly moving. But in his frenzy of action, Feldstein sometimes sacrifices his lines, and the significant climaxes of his dialogue are difficult to understand...