Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment issue offered a clear-cut moral issue along with a clear-cut populist strategy. Dramatic campus protest generated media interest and catapulted the issue into the national consciousness...
Miller's story could not but be a provocative glimpse into the outraged soul that conceived All My Sons, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, The Price and The American Clock. Yet for all the cut and thrust of action and emotion, there is something ruminative, at times woolly, about Timebends. The title seems to have been chosen to reflect its nonlinear, outwardly random structure, which in turn is apparently meant to evoke "time's fade-outs and fade-ins and cross-fades." His first words describe watching his mother's feet and ankles as he lay in infancy...
...Salesman. Although what lingers with many spectators is the play's powerful naturalistic evocation of family mistrust and disappointment, Miller emphasizes its nonrealistic side, the scenes of recollection and hallucination taking place in the haunted mind of its title character. His goal when creating Salesman, he says, was to "cut through time like a knife through a layer cake or a road through a mountain revealing its geologic layers, and instead of one incident in one time-frame succeeding another, display past and present concurrently, with neither one ever coming to a stop . . . How fantastic a play would be that...
...around the rule, officials in Gephardt's Iowa organization secretly enlisted a small-town newspaper publisher to serve as a front man and paid local residents $20 an hour in cash to distribute and collect the ballots. Keith Dinsmore, Gephardt's Iowa communications director, cut the deal with Ken Robinson, publisher of the tiny (circ. 1,500) Bayard News. At a late-afternoon dress rehearsal at the Starlite Village hotel, adjacent to the auditorium, Robinson sat quietly while Dinsmore instructed Drake University students and a handful of other paid recruits on how to poll the 8,000 Democrats expected...
...trade deficit, the closely watched barometer of America's global competitive woes, improved by a gratifying degree during September. But at week's end the financial world was left holding its breath for what had been promised as the most reassuring development of all: a bipartisan agreement to cut the U.S. budget deficit. After three weeks of daily meetings, the 15 congressional and Administration leaders who constitute the special budget summit adjourned without reaching a compromise on billions of dollars in new taxes and spending cuts...