Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another funny, sharp satire on male lust is a pick-up artist who claims that his success has to do with the fact that he is particularly well-endowed. At the end of this monologue, Bogosian calls to the house for more lights and begins to address the audience directly. In a protracted, very funny and rather graphic description of his sexual fantasies--in particular his desire for his wife's best friend--Bogosian displays all of the same neuroses found in his made-up lives. He does not exempt himself from his own attempts at satire...
...People like us are willing to put our butts on the line--to be put in jail--for housing to be a right and not a privilege. People who claim to be advocates for affordable housing need to deliver the goods. None of the bills Kennedy has supported actually address the problem...
...offensive gambits and defensive damage control are indispensable. With no margin for error, the danger of a gaffe, a mistake that will reveal too much, induces a crippling level of scripted caution. After the feel-good placebo of the Reagan years, neither Bush nor Dukakis dares to realistically ; address such pressing questions as the $2.8 trillion national debt. Devoid of content, the campaign almost inevitably becomes a technical exercise, akin to an overcoached Super Bowl with all plays taking place within the 40-yd. lines...
...voice choked with emotion, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel delivered a farewell address to his countrymen last week. "I leave the presidency today worried and filled with anxiety," he declared. "Today should have been a festival in which we rejoiced over the election of a new President. But the people of war were stronger than peace...
...Skinner, president of the Southern Bell telephone company: "No employee who has to leave a sick child or an elderly parent at home without adequate care can be expected to be your most productive employee. It is clearly in our best corporate interest to find ways to help employees address these problems...