Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avant-garde art scene of the late '80s. "We were critics," says Wink. "We were like Siskel and Ebert--and Zeppo". They wrote "Tubes" in 1991 and were amazed by the critical and popular success it has become. After four years, European and U.S. tours and Obie and Drama Desk awards, "Tubes" is still selling out two shows a night in New York and Boston. "To be able to have ideas and a short time or even a long time later to see them enacted, that's what it's all about as an artist...combined with the fact that...
...Donald recalls that President Kennedy, "thinking no doubt of how his own administration would look in the backward glance of history," told him that "No one has a right to grade a President -- who has not sat in his chair, examined the mail and information that came across his desk and learned why he made his decisions...
...with the spending bills heading for Clinton's desk, the quiet is ending. After months of searching for issues that will cut their way, battered Democrats have awakened to the political advantage of forming a Praetorian Guard around Mother Earth. Though Clinton has been accused of being just pale green, especially after he retreated in 1993 from imposing new grazing fees on federal lands, the White House has got the message. Al Gore, a best-selling conservationist, two weeks ago denounced Republicans on the Hill for a "jihad against the environment'' that had allowed lobbyists from "the biggest polluters...
...mandated burdens like those imposed by the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, which requires even struggling communities to spend heavily to upgrade their water systems. "When you're a Governor," he says, "and you see what this does to your communities, you really do want to strike your desk and say, 'No more...
...went into the inn and asked the front desk clerk to call the police, and [the clerk] refused when she learned that I wasn't a guest," La Tremouille said...