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Whereas Larson's show is sweet and cuddly, Urinetown is blunt and in your face. This Brechtian fable--a sellout hit in its tiny off-off-Broadway theater that is moving to Broadway in August--is set in a city where the water shortage is so dire that private toilets have been outlawed. The play overdoses a bit on winking self-references ("Everything in its time, little Sally," one character says to another. "Nothing can kill a show like too much exposition"), and the promise of sharp political satire is lost on the way to a generic cartoon...
...timing of the "best practices" document is suspect; it's a blunt effort to head off legislation. The move fortifies a well-grounded belief that Wall Street--for all its talk of self-policing--will never do anything to undercut its own self-enrichment unless forced...
...P.R.I. Fox spent most of his business career working in Mexico City for Coca-Cola, the quintessential American company, and he likes to say--much as Ronald Reagan did--that U.S. business practices can be used to reform federal government. More important, he is culturally a norteno, given to blunt talk, a distrust of the Mexico City bureaucracy and open admiration for the U.S. His National Action Party, or P.A.N., reinvented itself in the northern states of Chihuahua and Baja California, reshaping itself in the 1980s from an ideological right-wing sect to one that championed free elections, civil society...
...This style is not appropriate for the current circumstances,” Jorgenson says. “The debate is very orderly now… [Knowles] doesn’t feel that he has to be blunt. Everything is cordial...
...since an April speech in which he seemed to mock conservation as a means of dealing with energy shortages. Top Bush aides did not see the speech until the day he delivered it. Even though Bush and Cheney are in complete agreement, the difference in tone between Cheney's blunt speech and Bush's conciliatory one last week was stark. By last week Bush aides were happy to have regained control of the energy-policy rollout from Cheney's office. Plans to have Cheney hit the road to help sell the plan were scrapped. Energy Secretary SPENCE ABRAHAM is scheduled...