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During the final throes of an otherwise forgettable midterm campaign, Americans last week witnessed a strange spectacle: George Bush, the celebrated conciliator and undistinguished orator, tried -- at least for a couple of days -- to emulate Harry ("Give 'Em Hell") Truman...
...lawmakers for obstructing it and convinced voters to replace them with Democrats. This time, however, neither the actor nor the stage seemed to fit the script. Voters, while disgusted by federal fecklessness, blame Republicans at least as much as Democrats. Also, as a senior Republican strategist conceded, "this give-'em-hell stuff really isn't George Bush, and it's not credible coming from him. It's too strident...
...larger venue and with more inventive staging. But Heller's decision to present this production as a cramped series of chorus numbers undermines the onstage enthusiasm. In "Razzle Dazzle," the song which might serve as a parable of the entire production, the cast sings, "As long as you keep 'em way off balance/How can they tell you've got no talent." In this badly managed production of Chicago, we are kept so off-balance that we cannot tell who has talent and who does...
...cheers, anyway. Because this is not the revolution that I, at least, signed on for. When the feminist movement burst forth a couple of decades ago, the goal was not just to join 'em -- and certainly not just to beat 'em -- but to improve an imperfect world. Gloria Steinem sketched out the vision in a 1970 TIME Essay titled "What It Would Be Like If Women Win." What it would be like was a whole lot better, for men as well as women, because, as she said right up front, "Women don't want to exchange places with...
...counterproductive. "We didn't win everything, but we got most of what we wanted," says Congressman Charles Schumer of New York, who had been among the group that most strongly urged for a steeply progressive tax plan. "It's like poker -- you have to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em...