Word: beggars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first blush, incentives look like a reasonably good idea. Government does its part to create an environment conducive to economic growth. Jobs are created, and in theory, both corporate profits and tax rolls grow. Unfortunately, bidding wars have escalated to the degree that government often must beggar itself to get or keep business. Now, for a conservative, this too might not seem like such a undesirable consequence: business succeeds at shrinking government and thus strikes a blow for economic liberty...
...When my generation decides not to take American money, you can not force a country to become a beggar," he said. "We have to find something else, or there won't be anything...
Such sentiments will hardly make for smooth U.S.-U.N. cooperation in future peacekeeping operations. Boutros-Ghali, in an interview with Time, chose to turn the other cheek. Said he: "I am a super beggar" who can operate only with the contributions of troops and money that member nations make and the conditions they set. But members of his staff were understandably furious at the U.S. attitude...
...young, attractive actor-singers give heartfelt performances nonetheless, never condescending to the characters but finding dignity in their primal passions. In particular, Willard White and Cynthia Haymon invest the title roles with wrenching believability. In Nunn's conception, the crippled beggar Porgy is less pathetic and helpless than in most productions, hobbling on crutches instead of pushing himself on a cart. At the end he flings away his crutches and, in search of his missing Bess, lurches off painfully, heroically into a blaze of backlighting. It's a dazzling final image, but one that also points up the drawback...
...head. This is Ganesha, the Hindu god who embodies childish playfulness, zest for life and prankish humor. During the course of almost three hours, he appears in countless guises across a tourist's landscape of India, as a Japanese husband and later his wife, as a street peddler, a beggar and a leper, not to mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers and self-aware enough to be deeply discontented with their outwardly settled world. They are looking for magic and miracles...