Word: controled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their scenes. Kirsten Giroux's dark-voiced Isabella is the best performance of the evening--she makes this occasionally self-righteous, all-too-correct role warm and sympathetic. James Kitendaugh plays Angelo as a thoughtful, principled man with too many layers of civilization smothering his emotions. As his control begins to go, the fidgeting he uses to signal his tense repression first accelerates and then disappears altogether, as he gives in to his desire...
...story before it runs on for ten acts instead of five, the production turns more superficial. Thomas Apple's Duke is nothing to be unhappy about--he's smooth, fatherly and reassuring. But Shakespeare wrote the part as a playwright's nightmare of schemes gone bad, plots out of control. Apple remains blithe, unperturbed, not the sort of Machiavellian man you'd look towards to resolve the mess at the play's end. He comes off more like the big daddy of a commune in Vermont than Duke of Vienna...
...State of the Union address, he shrewdly avoided mentioning his efforts to raise prices in one of the most concentrated, oligopolistic, profitable industries in the economy--big oil. Not only do the top eight petroleum refining companies possess 14.5 per cent of the the market, they also control the other stages of the production process. And as anyone who has taken Ec 10 knows, the oil industry does not fit the classical model of perfect competition. The vertically integraged oligopoly does not set its prices at MC equals MR, but at the highest prices consumers will pay without hurting...
...believe in the free enterprise system, where market forces determine prices. But the oil and gas industry is not part of that system because prices are not free. They're heavily influenced by decisions made outside our country by the OPEC nations and they are heavily influenced by some control over the rate of production by American companies...
...Control is precisely the element Harvard has missed all season. The team can't play a zone defense, and they've accepted the role as a perimeter offensive team. But their shooters haven't done the job from outside, and miserable freethrow shooting has proved costly...