Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League of American Theaters and Producers: "Producers need to be attentive to economics and minimize their risks. That's why we are seeing so many revivals and returns to proven stories." Michael David, who co-produced several new musicals before mounting Guys and Dolls and Tommy, is even blunter: "Broadway and the developing of art have nothing to do with each other. There's no artistic mandate. Broadway is just Vegas for plays. And as it becomes more speculative, it's easier to raise money and easier to feel good about doing so when you know a lot more about...
...irrelevant to an eventual political solution. "Right now they are factors in the political landscape," he says. "But the Somalis don't like domination by a single political party. When people aren't fighting, they don't need military alliances." A former Somali journalist puts the issue in blunter terms: "The U.S. has to deal with these people to stabilize the environment in the short term. But when peace and democracy return to this country, they will be tried as war criminals. They are political bulldozers who killed thousands of people and destroyed national unity...
...their bureaucracies to devote more resources to labs, libraries and classrooms. "Higher education has to see itself as having an enhanced obligation to society and the community," says Arthur Hauptman, a Washington-based educational consultant. Ernest Boyer, head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is even blunter. "Universities and colleges," he warns, "will be either engaged or judged irrelevant." To measure by its noble past and present accomplishments -- even amid fiscal agony -- odds are strong that higher learning in America will find a way to compete and survive. Like Fortune's annual list...
...Maiden and Richard Seader of Shimada, that a new script by an unknown author absolutely requires star clout. Says Berlind: "The average straight play costs more than $1 million to produce. Doing one on Broadway without the protection of name recognizability is almost a lost business." Seader is even blunter: "We were originally considering off-Broadway. I don't think we would have done Shimada on Broadway without stars...
...predicting for three weeks. The new deployments will roughly triple the firepower confronting Iraq. Moreover, Bush finally dropped the fiction that the deployment was "purely defensive." The new buildup, said the President, is intended specifically to give U.S. commanders "an adequate offensive military option should that be necessary" -- in blunter words, the ability to dislodge Saddam's forces from Kuwait...