Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point is not that the ART was billing Endgame as a play about nuclear war survivors. They were not. The point is when you stage the play in a set depicting a deserted, gutted subway, the original hint about the possible fate of the characters becomes, for many,the single intended background. One of the important uncertainties about Endgame is forgotten or lost. A play which might hav emade people think about their own existence is removed from shame; it becomes, as it impressed a box office worker, a play about nuclear war survivors...
...Ironic twist of fate that Deaver announced his resignation as the White House's deputy chief of staff on the very day a Wall Street Journal article detailed how his financial picture, which he much lamented a few years back, has since "brightened considerably." The article noted somewhat whimsically that Deaver's wife Carolyn had become an "overnight success" in the public relations field despite no previous experience, gaining clients like the Republican National Committee. A friend of Deaver's, it was also reported, had arranged for Deaver to make a $10,000 profit on a money-losing real estate...
...went against the Administration's free-market philosophy, but regulators feared the stability of the entire financial system was in jeopardy. Said one top Federal Reserve official: "We did not know what would happen if we didn't rescue Continental. We could not take the risk." When Continental's fate was in doubt, the jitters affected even solid institutions. Manufacturers Hanover, for example, watched its stock price drop by nearly 11% in one day because of an unfounded rumor that it was in trouble...
...force in shaping the story he is telling, almost as a character. And as a resonant symbol: of the unknowable and chaotic universe everyone inhabits; of the unknowable and chaotic inner life that inhabits everyone. Those images in which man's pretensions to power, to mastery over self and fate, are trivialized, swallowed up in the vastness of the Indian earth and sky, are careful, conscious efforts to express the film's theme visually without stating it flatly, in words...
...sorry fate of some big-budget movies to be remembered as the indifferent sequels to their own prerelease publicity. Mention Cleopatra and the memory swirls, not with images from the film but with tabloids screaming the latest indiscretion of Liz and Dick. Mention The Cotton Club 20 years from now, and the graybeards will have forgotten whether it was a good film or a bad one. Instead, they will gather their young ones around the video fireplace and enthrall them with this fable...