Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insistence of the estate of librettist-lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on replicating the 1956 staging. Most impiously, Davies hints that Eliza leaves Higgins forever, as in Shaw's Pygmalion. That idea fights the musical's text and, indeed, its boy-meets-girl form. The text and form win the brawl. But nothing in this show is close to a knockout...
...trade brawl over computer chips erupted between the U.S. and Japan as Washington called for "emergency consultations" with Tokyo following the release of figures showing yet another drop in the share of Japan's semiconductor market held by foreign companies. For the first three quarters of 1993, the foreigners' share has fallen and has been stuck below a benchmark 20% share negotiated by the two governments. The Administration wants to fight for the U.S. computer-chip industry, but it does not want trade friction to topple Japan's fragile reform coalition government...
...days. Coming on the heels of the NAFTA triumph, images of elated flight attendants around the country shouting "Thank you, Bill!" afforded Clinton the novel sensation of basking in public acclaim while simultaneously massaging an important group of constituents -- organized labor -- whose anger he had provoked during the NAFTA brawl...
...wife fled the scene and the bandit went after her, and then the husband committed suicide. Finally, we see the woodcutter's eyewitness version, in which Tajomaru fights with the husband at the wife's insistence, and the fight we see is anything but glamorous. It is a brawl between two frightened, panting men goaded by the woman's laughter and impugning of their manhood...
...people. Political correctness argues that the price of peace in a racially diverse America may be suppressing ideas that cause such pain. Perhaps that could mean a more civilized nation. Up to now, though, America's genius has not been in its civility, but rather in its raucous barroom brawl in search of the truth...