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...dark tones, and the BBC World Service T-shirt I sported just didn't seem to fit the mood. Meanwhile my lissome friend glided through a sample of her theatrical network, whilst I was left to read the program. This done about 20 times, the lights started to dim, and that flustering thrill of the unexpected quieted...
...tactical savvy and strategic good sense. Like other Southern populists before him, Clinton seemed instinctively to know how to put the hay down where the goats were. In the end, however, only the flatness of the field around him rescued his tottering effort, and his prospects against Bush seemed dim. But events beyond Clinton's control were already chipping away at the President's invincibility...
...title makes the setting self-evident. The plot is simple: A group of six actors play a cornicopea of faces and situations interspersed by precisely timed entrances and exits until they all finally make it to the table at the same time, light the candles and watch the lights dim as the play ends...
...eerie familiarity to the Supreme Court Justices as depicted in giant caricature masks (one is black and another female, emphatically not reality in 1931), and an oblique gay inflection has been wrung out of one bit of dialogue. But most of the performers make no headline reference -- the dim Vice President is plump and scruffy, not boyishly cute -- and the big production numbers feel almost antique...
...come by in the coming years, which will be spent curing these large and unwelcome burdens America is suddenly forced to bear. Slow growth is the curse of the 1990s. But if it is managed correctly, there is no reason to believe American prospects in the long run are dim. They are not. What is required is a collective political will that has been conspicuously absent from the American economic landscape for too long...