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...what is it about Pinter - director (of major productions starring Lauren Bacall and Faye Dunaway), political activist (he campaigned against "NATO machismo" in Kosovo), actor and, of course, playwright - that has touched so many? His plays are not as immediately funny as Alan Ayckbourn's, and you cannot easily sympathize with his invariably damaged, degraded characters as you can with those of, say, Arthur Miller. Pinter is more difficult, in every sense, than his contemporaries, and his rooms are battlegrounds...
...Pinter's first high-profile directing project, Simon Gray's Butley starring Alan Bates, is staged in London. (Pinter goes on to direct the film version three years later...
...compliment or a jab, but five months later, while Kennedy was vacationing in the Caribbean, President-elect Bush phoned him and sounded him out about working together on education. Kennedy liked the idea. On Jan. 20, during a congressional lunch after the Inauguration, Kennedy got former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, a conservative friend, to take him over to Bush's table for a chat. "Mr. President," Simpson said, "here's Ted Kennedy, the orneriest s.o.b. in this place. But if he tells you he's going to stick, he'll stick...
...moves in a long, long time. Because while the steep-sloped graph of Fed rate cuts this year now shows a distinct leveling off - right smack in the middle of the weakest economic quarter in a decade - nowhere in the 200-word accompanying statement was any hint of why Alan Greenspan chose June 27, 2001 to ease off on the throttle...
...back-story has been the same for a long while. Stock market flat. Corporate earnings depressing. Capital spending by businesses - the collapse of which started this slowdown, and the resurgence of which must occur to finally end it - still in deep hibernation. Alan Greenspan slashing rates with the zeal of a self-preservationist, a half-point at a time, on five straight occasions. (Twice between meetings...