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Liebert adds that Lang's "mainly a door opener. He's mainly a provocateur. There are people who would be downright slanderous if public correspondence were the vehicle that all of us were to use for assessing other people's work...
Certainly the play's atmosphere should be gloomy and oppressive, but the production's musical effects are extraneous and downright silly. At the close of each scene, the lights dim, and the family exits with Mary creeping off in her ghostly white gown. A spooky cadence of piano notes smooths the transition to the next scene. Whatever this discordant clanging is meant to represent--Mary's crippled hands, crippled hopes?--it diverts the audience's attention from the play's fluidity and haunting themes...
Atop policymaker who is one of Feldstein's handful of Administration allies thinks that many White House aides have become unreasonable and downright unfair to the economist: "They're saying he wants to get his national name recognition up to 40% and that he's determined to go down in the history books as the man who tried to stop those deficits. It's pretty nasty stuff. It's not really justified...
...fall at a symposium on voter registration sponsored by Harvard and ABC News. "It is almost impossible to figure out how, in a convenient way, to become registered," he said. Carter's lament is borne out by the proliferation of rules and regulations in some states that make it downright difficult to get to the voting booth. Despite the provisions of the Voting Rights Act, which was designed to eliminate discriminatory registration rules, many states continue to prohibit postcard and door-to-door registration--a move which disproportionately affects poor and minority voters. Some states still require voters to register...
...raid. They were particularly upset that they had received virtually no advance notice that the attack would take place. The British acknowledged publicly that the U.S. had an "inherent right of self-defense," but they were angry about what one official described as Ronald Reagan's "illadvised, counterproductive and downright dangerous" escalation of the conflict. The British disagree with the U.S. perception of Syria as a Soviet satellite and are concerned that Washington will seek to use Israel as "America's Cuba." Similarly, the French government described the U.S. raid as "retaliatory" in nature. But the French, who had previously...