Word: dealing
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...daughter, Susannah, to deliver a message about their father, the amiably named Ray. The mystery of the stranger and the contents of the letter, however, gradually give rise to a series of colorfully existentialist and epistemological revelations, odd cultic rituals involving trousers and the moon, and a great deal of hemming and hawing over both. One could describe the plot--basically, Ray is actually a duplicate husband, mildly deviant, that William Hard must replace--but it is in essence less interesting, for all its gratuitous weirdness, than the atmosphere it engenders. In the play, Hard comes from the Land...
Songs such as "War Child" and "Bosnia" both deal with the heavy-handed subject of war. Whereas the Irish group was well qualified to write of Belfast's destruction, they are out of their element when they attempt to focus on the Bosnian war. "When do the saints go marching in..." repeatedly intones "Bosnia", while a children's lullaby plays faintly in the background. It is commendable that the group should attempt to address such an important conflict but their constant allusions to the matter are disconcerting and somewhat glib considering their inexperience with the subject...
Amid the mounting gloom, Newt Gingrich remains stymied. The man who energized House Republicans has been in his own private funk since January, after Clinton refused to do a balanced-budget deal on G.O.P. terms and Gingrich had no fallback plan ready. When Gingrich inches into the spotlight lately, it's under the cover of lovable critters. To mark Earth Day last Monday he appeared at the Atlanta zoo with an African elephant. He ended the week on the Tonight Show, cradling a piglet. If it's all a bit Marlin Perkins, esteemed gray eminence of Wild Kingdom...
...Leon Panetta to accept almost at once. It was an offer that Dole could make but couldn't accept. "We'll see how it looks," he said in retreat. On the Republican right, and not just there, they think Clinton mesmerized Gingrich in the December balanced-budget talks. Any deal Dole might bring back to the skeptical freshmen would probably be sneered at. And that would be a catastrophic exposure of weakness that Dole could ill afford...
...empty-handed. Despite his vociferous opposition to agricultural subsidies, Armey agreed to the recently passed farm bill, even though it maintained federal payments to big sugar companies. "I had to take what I could get," he says. And he has even come to appreciate Dole, Washington's master deal cutter. "One reason is because my daddy raised me around workhorses and not show horses," Armey said at one of his recent district meetings. "I have come to like Bob Dole...