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...stage perhaps takes understated symbolism just a little too far. Props, costumes, walls--everything is white, the white of outmoded Edwardian prudery. An iron lattice like the bars of a cage, also white, forms a backdrop. By providing so much evidence of the family's obsession with respectability, the stage manager insults the viewer's intelligence...
...that doughnut, with the help of lobbying leverage and clever zoning laws, are able to treat central Camden as a dump. Today the main inner-city industry is scrap: Camden exports 1.2 million tons a year. The waterfront is lined with piles of twisted metal -- rusty foothills to the backdrop of Philadelphia's skyscrapers directly across the river. And in March of 1990, Camden County opened its first trash incinerator, where 1,500 tons of garbage from the suburbs is trucked each day and turned to steam. To complete the sense of a town left to pinch out a living...
...that America's continued reliance on deficit spending hampers the nation's ability to save, invest and increase productivity. "We know the federal deficit is the problem," she said. "Too many people believe that the trade deficit is the result of closed markets. But closed markets are just the backdrop. Opening markets removes that backdrop and makes the problem less emotional...
...Waterston's plodding earnestness can be a bit much, and the political- correctness level is inordinately high. But there is much truth and tenderness in this family drama set against a backdrop of racial tensions in a 1950s Southern community. Easily the best of a dismal crop of new network shows...
...Waterston's plodding earnestness can be a bit much, and the political- correctness level is inordinately high. But there is much truth and tenderness in this family drama set against a backdrop of racial tensions in a 1950s Southern community. Easily the best of a dismal crop of new network shows...