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The GOP job-stimulating strategy represents a top-down approach: providing essentially greater tax savings to the business sector with the expectation that, by extension, this subsequent improvement in its financial performance will-to use an overused and much-maligned cliche (please forgive me)-trickle down to American workers. There...

Author: By Peronet DESPEIGNES Jr., | Title: Cut the Human Capital Tax | 3/22/1995 | See Source »

There are only three good things about Brett Leonard's thriller "Hideaway": its heaven, its hell and Jeff Goldblum. The rest can be wrapped up as cliche characters, cliche plot and violence that is gratuitous yet surprisingly dainty.

Author: By Judith E. Dutton, | Title: Good Heavens! Goldblum's Hell of a Flick | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

Oh god, the cliche's continue. There's Hatch's young virgin daughter tied to the altar of the killer-devil spawned-punk's artistic masterpiece, screaming "Daddeeeeeey!" There's the doctor, who has realized his wrongdoings and runs off to grab Hatch right before he dies in order to...

Author: By Judith E. Dutton, | Title: Good Heavens! Goldblum's Hell of a Flick | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

But if abortion is in fact the unjustified taking of a human life, cost-benefit analysis is not only irrelevant, it is offensive and morally repugnant. The response to the economic argument, while familiar almost to the point of cliche, is nevertheless worth repeating: if we could show that economic...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Physician, Teach Thyself | 3/7/1995 | See Source »

The performance history of La Rondinehas been vexed by doubts about the dramaticeffectiveness of the third act. Ostensibly, thereversal that separates the erstwhile star-crossedlovers is insufficiently prepared in the first twoacts. Perhaps the Dunster House production'ssuccessful truncation of the opera lendsplausibility to this reading. The resulting story,however...

Author: By John D. Shepherd, | Title: Dunster House Scales Puccini | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

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