Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Especially in the fast-moving dialogue, Williams' translation is witty--and the production benefits. Compare the literal Greek of Pentheus' sarcasm (Hos thrasus ho Bakhos, How insolent is this Bacchus!) with Williams' "Bacchic backtalk!" Again in the same scene "Deinos su deinos kapi dein' erkhei pathe (I need a macron)," "You are wonderful, wonderful" (Laurence Welk, anybody?) "And wonderful are the experiences you go to meet" becomes in Williams "You are awe-inspiring. Your outcome will inspire awe." The translation and the production share the great felicity of exaltation in the words themselves...
...obviously like a fast track," Murphy said. "But we'll play on whatever field there...
WASHINGTON: This is the big one ? the one Bill Clinton wants more than anything for his second term. It's "fast track," and in the Senate it's as good as passed. But Friday the measure hits the House, and there its fate is very much undecided...
...scramble for votes, on both sides, continued Thursday. Clinton called on the stable of fast-tracking ex-presidents, who piped up for the measure at an opening ceremony for the Bush presidential library. On the way home, he was ringing up lawmakers from Air Force One. But ideologically, Clinton is already blue in the face on the subject, and for converts the pork store is officially open...
...bill's rousing bipartisan success, assured since President Clinton's October flip-flop, leaves Republicans with a new problem: How to keep their lead on taxes, which, with the 1998 races looming, has fast become politics' most attractive issue...