Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obvious that there's different treatment of a well clad businessman and a jeans-clad Harvard student," Gregoire said...
...works both theatrically and thematically. The racial casting, for instance, is a brilliant way of defusing the play's anti-Semitism -- turning it into a metaphor for prejudice and materialism in all its forms. Paul Butler plays Shylock with basso-profundo self-assurance; he's a hardhearted ghetto businessman who, even when he is humiliated at the end, never loses his cool or stoops for pity...
While the poor feast on hope, the elite who live up in the cool hills of Petionville and control 40% of the economy are preparing for nothing short of apocalypse. "They look at Aristide and what do they see?" says a businessman. "They see their cook, their gardener, their maid." The rich have stepped up private patrols of their flower-fringed villas and sleep with pistols beneath their beds. "Everybody is afraid," says Raymond Roy, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Aristide's people can destroy everything in three hours...
When Katherine is put in a mental institution after stabbing a businessman at dinner with the butter knife, I could not help but wonder why she was the only one getting mental help. Of course, Davies makes the point by having the only mentally balanced characters in the film die. This may, however be a bit presumptuous in regards to the father, whose death is the only cause for a dubious plot, and who has expired before the film even begins...
...Kennedy, first elected in 1962, as an agent of change. "There is not a single, solitary member of the U.S. Senate more interested in new ideas than he is," Clinton told a roaring high school audience. Clinton's pat-on-the-back occurred as Kennedy's poll margin over businessman and G.O.P. candidate Mitt Romney grew to 10 points. A Boston Herald-WCVB-TV poll, conducted this week, showed 50% of the registered voters backing Kennedy and 40% behind Romney, with a margin of error of 4.9%. A month ago, a poll had them neck and neck...