Word: bureaucrat
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...character, some scenes seem more closely tailored to the strengths of one individual or another. Gowl and Steinberger are hilarious as an elderly couple suddenly able to speak only Italian as the result of a failed experiment, and Modigliani's wonderful deadpan shines when he plays an inefficient government bureaucrat. Keefe's brown-nosing graduate student is so distressingly accurate that many audience members shuddered visibly, no doubt recalling past experiences in Literature and Arts courses. The production, designed by John Gordan '01, was simple yet effective. The blank half wall allowed the performers to transform the space quickly...
...also spoke about prescription drugs and HMOs, saying, "You want your doctor to be the one making decisions, not some bureaucrat in the government...
...leader must feel the pain of the country," says Sergei Stepashin, the Prime Minister dismissed in Putin's favor when he looked too soft to satisfy Yeltsin's demands. "Putin knew we had no alternative. Otherwise we'd have lost all authority in the country." Suddenly the gray-suited bureaucrat wore tough-guy garb, displaying the iron hand that Russians craved. When Putin coarsely proclaimed that his army would "wipe the terrorists out wherever we find them, even if they are sitting on the toilet," Russians loved it, and his popularity shot...