Word: agitprop
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...vendors sell books by Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky along with olive-drab T shirts bearing the show's title. It's what the politicians might call twin-track theater - plays seeking to work as both entertainment and propaganda. But where Embedded is a sloppy, two-dimensional piece of agitprop, Hare's show is more diplomatic, and dramatizes the runup to war without turning the politicians into cartoons. Desmond Barrit gives an icy turn as U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Nicholas Farrell catches the vocal tics and eager body language almost too precisely...
...mostly in 1985 and 1986 and adapted by Tony Kushner from his pair of Tony-and Pulitzer-prizewinning plays, Angels is equal parts domestic drama, agitprop and Scripture. It follows two New York City couples: Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), who is sick with AIDS, and his lover Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), who abandons Prior, unable to cope with his illness; and Joe and Harper Pitt (Patrick Wilson and Mary-Louise Parker), a closeted gay Mormon lawyer and his disturbed, pill-popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph...
...very young Lenny Bruce in a bow tie appears onscreen; he's doing not very funny impersonations. This is far removed from the later and more familiar agitprop Lenny. "Today's style started with Lenny Bruce. See," says Seinfeld, pointing to the screen, "he knew he couldn't be Danny Kaye." But it wasn't the political Lenny Bruce that influenced comics, Seinfeld says. "It was Lenny talking about his life. He had a routine about his wife wanting to have a kid, and he'd say, 'Why bring strangers into the house?'" Seinfeld laughs...
...Millie," the Julie Andrews musical without Julie Andrews, followed and won the Tony for best musical. Maybe the judges didn't want to give it to a show called "Urinetown," the critical hit that is much perkier, less rancid than its title suggests; it's a musical comedy in agitprop drag. And now comes "Hairspray...
...leader of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap gang was quickly taken out, and as U.S. troops left, scores of locals showed up to regretfully send them off. During Wednesday's farewell ceremonies, U.S. Brigadier General Donald Wurster declared the mission "an absolute success." In a piece of agitprop reminiscent of mid-century American police actions, the U.S. is both leaving and returning simultaneously: in the same breath as declaring victory, American officials said 80 to 100 special forces agents will remain in Basilan through October, when more U.S. soldiers will be redeployed in the Philippines...