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Derek Jarman's ostensibly hip 1992 rendering of Christopher Marlowe's classic play is a fine example of how one can choke on one's own postmodernism. You won't be allowed to forget that the play was written centuries ago, but its timeliness (gay love, violently thwarted) will be thrust rudely at you like a piece of ACT-UP literature: fine if you're a piece of ACT-UP literature, but not necessarily if you're a Christopher Marlowe play. But first, the Cliff Notes. Edward II has a particular affection for a commoner named Gaveston, and makes...
...they can uncover that will draw blood. The truth that remains veiled is that only people who once loved (or still love) each other very much would know how to destroy each other like this; only once, Martha alludes to this, "[George] who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat; who can hold me at night, so that it's warm, and whom I will bite so there's blood...who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving me and must be punished...
...potential catastrophe because of shortages of food, fuel and electricity. Worried by that -- and by the political beating the Administration would take for "losing" Sarajevo -- U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher joined hawkish National Security Adviser Anthony Lake in ordering an analysis of air power to break the Serbian choke hold on the capital. That surprised many policymakers unused to seeing Christopher push the government toward the use of force in Bosnia. But the Secretary of State felt badly stung by the failure of his attempts in May to push NATO into military intervention, and was worried that U.S. diplomatic...
...when we finally go public, you're our point man. It's campaign mode again, Hillary. It's babies and holding hands and soft and cuddly. You're the First Lady--play to that. Emotion works well on TV; as you know, I choke up every chance...
These latest cutbacks underline Clinton's challenge as he prepares to revive the economy. While GDP grew 3.8% in the fourth quarter and orders for durable goods rose more than 9% in December, continued job woes could choke off recovery. Speaking last Tuesday, Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the Administration now favors spending about $20 billion this year to keep the | recovery rolling. And to assist the growing army of laid-off workers, the Administration may seek to extend the period for collecting unemployment benefits, which now run out after 59 weeks...