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...when Gore was bored with his thesis, Jones found him sitting at his desk, dressed in coveralls, teaching himself how to play "Dixie" on the touch-tone phone...
Before the bill reached the Governor's desk, however, Texas judges, aghast that they might lose the valuable (and perhaps profitable) ability to choose the lawyers themselves, used their full political influence to get the bill killed. As a result of the judges' lobbying efforts, many members of the legislature, including one of the bill's original co-sponsors, feigned ignorance of the bill's provisions and dropped their support for the measure. Bush agreeably followed with a veto, saying that the changes were too "drastic" and judges were "better able to assess the quality of legal representation" than county...
...even better idea: Why not have Elian's "reinsertion" into Cuban society take place inside the U.S., namely by sending Juan Miguel--surrounded by Elian's teachers, classmates, psychiatrists and family members--to Washington to create a little slice of home? Havana even wanted to send his old desk from school, which has since become something of a shrine...
...undue homage to the authority of written words. Theater is a unique set of experiences based fundamentally in space rather than letters. As such it has a visual language all its own, a language which cannot be notated ahead of time by an author sitting at a desk. The author is the genesis point of a play in Artaud's vision, if a play is to be written ahead of time at all, but the director is the one who turns the script into a piece of theater...
...choice but to tell entire stories through dialogue alone. On top of this a director will then add his or her own visual story in the visual language that Artaud holds so dear. Combining these distinct layers of narrative-one conceived in words by a person at a desk, the other conceived in images by a person in a theater-into a single performance has the potential to be beautiful should the two layers work in harmony with one another. Far more likely, however, is that the performance will find itself in conflict with itself. The visual story will...