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...Westchester County, New York, citizens are banding together because they believe $70,000 per year is too much to pay a group of college-educated professionals. Those professionals work at least forty hours a week, take home paperwork every night and are expected to entertain an audience of 30 for five or six hours...
...gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of ripoff -- not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
Though the play is certainly not as relaxing as your everyday cup of tea (as its title suggests), it is funny and does what it sets out to do--educate, enlighten, and entertain...
...feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah -- fair is for wimps. But she is always entertaining, offering vigorous ideas for the open mind to entertain...
Already, the sales pitch is several decibels louder. On his trip to Latin America last month, Perry said he would entertain requests from Argentina and Brazil for the U.S. Air Force's frontline F-16 fighters. Washington once discouraged such sales. In April the Administration, reversing U.S. policy, permitted Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding to begin talks on constructing diesel submarines -- worth $350 million each -- for Egypt and other countries. And Rockwell International Corp. has begun seeking foreign buyers for its $80 million-a-copy AC-130 gunship, a specially modified cargo plane that puts a 105-mm howitzer into...