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Clinton named investment banker Roger Altman asBentsen's top assistant and former CongressionalBudget Office Director Alice M. Rivlin asPanetta's deputy...
...contrast to the cinematically luxurious Greed, the libretto of McTeague -- by Bolcom's longtime collaborator Arnold Weinstein and director Robert Altman -- relates the action in spare, simple prose. McTeague (tenor Ben Heppner), a powerful brute who has set up shop as an unlicensed dentist in San Francisco, falls in love with his best friend Marcus Schouler's girl, Trina (soprano Catherine Malfitano, in a marvelously sensual performance). After Trina wins $5,000 in a lottery -- and McTeague's practice is ruined when the jealous Marcus (baritone Timothy Nolen) reports him to the authorities -- the relationship sinks slowly into a morass...
...Altman, whose only previous operatic staging was a 1983 Rake's Progress at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, proves to be an ideal directorial choice. Especially noteworthy is Trina's erotic soliloquy as she lies in bed showered with her gold pieces, a latter-day Danae. And surely the opening scene of Act II, in which the maid Maria (mezzo Emily Golden) hymns the joy of wealth while experiencing the joy of sex up against a fence, is an operatic first...
...assigned roles without complaint. If his appointment of Harvard's Robert Reich to oversee economic issues during the transition translates into Reich's anointment as Economic Security adviser, the Administration will be well served. "Besides being smart as hell, Bob has the temperament to manage competing egos," says Roger Altman, a Clinton economic-policy adviser. "He is unflappable and well respected, someone the others could work with harmoniously, knowing their positions would be faithfully presented to the President...
...Roger Altman: The vice chairman of the Blackstone Group investment banking firm served as Jimmy Carter's Assistant Treasury Secretary. "Roger's the best at working with the rest of us, and he knows Washington," says a Clinton adviser. "He's known for taking the deficit seriously, but at 46 he may be too young for a President of the same age. Yet if all that matters after four years is the bottom line, Altman could help us get on its good side...