Word: exigente
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By his early teens, Mamet was earning his theatrical and financial capital, doing anything profitable, from washing windows to waiting on tables. "The first thing I learned," he says, "is that the exigent speak poetry. They do not speak the language of newspapers." He soon became backstage-struck and signed...
What follows is entirely predictable and unabashedly vulgar. Inhibitions must be left at the door. Alan Bennett, one of the quartet of Beyond the Fringe a decade ago, has constructed no more than a sloppy farce, but in Director Frank Dunlop's nimble hands it becomes an uproarious kaleidoscope...
It may be that 200 years of growth have made this impossible. Men of modern power perhaps can be nothing else, so exigent and awesome are the demands upon them. Yet our best Presidents have clung to small pleasures that tied them to the ground and their fellow citizens. Lincoln...
The campaign advance man is a staple of modern political folklore. He is the scout for the candidate's wagon train, as well as a political strategist, tour director and carnival barker. It is his exigent assignment to schedule a rally to his candidate's best advantage, drum...
But it could be rendered irrelevant in a vastly and increasingly prosperous nation. Unfortunately, the fear caused by recession works sharply against this prospect. The recession may be only an episode, but it is perhaps also a metaphor for a deeper fear that American growth is not un limited and...