Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demise of leadership in America dates back nearly 40 years to the time when Franklin Roosevelt stumbled upon the concept that he could be President forever (almost) by having Government confer economic benefits upon the people. The sinister greed that lies beneath the surface in all of us came out in the open and, from that time on, we voted for whatever charlatans promised us the most. Change will come when, and only when, men of character, intelligence, charisma and courage rise up to tell us the truth about ourselves. We may have to wait a long time...
...Beneath the state's grazing lands lies the nation's richest treasure of high-quality, easily minable coal that the U.S. badly needs for energy...
...Said Armory Warder Harry Harrington: "It was just like wartime. There was a woman with her leg off, kids with no clothes." When the dust settled, 37 persons, including eight children, had been injured. Two of the victims lost their legs, and a child's foot was found beneath the cannon. One British woman, Dorothy Household, 47, died later that night...
...mental taxidermy, imagining how all the members would look were they attached to a vital form. At the end of the play, Biff, the son most deeply scarred with Willy's broken dreams and promises, falls upon Willy sobbing, in recognition of the common bond that still exists beneath the spite and anger. It should be a very moving moment, but it doesn't work in this production. And that was not Biff's fault--it was Willy's who, in being little more endearing than a Fuller Brush man, makes Biff's gesture seem strangely out of place...
HENNIE BERGER, the tough-talking daughter who complies with her mother's scheme to falsely entrap a husband and yet managers to endure, is sympathetically portrayed by Helena Ruoti, who delivers her smart remarks with all the emotion that simmers beneath them. As the wisecracking racketeer who understands that it's all a racket. "Marriage, politics, big business- everybody plays cops and robbers," and who says "Listen, lousy," when he means "I love you," Steven Gilborn's Moe Axelrod grows on you throughout the production. Donald Buka polishes off the role of the fat cat capitalist Uncle Morty as effortlessly...