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...wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting-reacquainted sex, the fissures reappear. He complains dismissively about her freezing flat ("You can take hostages and tell them this is Beirut"); she excoriates him for not appreciating her work as an inner-city teacher. This predictable feint at class conflict, however, doesn't bring to life a relationship that fails ever to involve us. Why were these two together in the first place? Could they ever be together again? These are questions we don't walk away asking; this well-crafted, unsurprising play closes a circle before we have...
...Reagan years, though discretionary spending dropped by more than a third, not a single major federal spending program was eliminated. Republicans were still unwilling to embrace Goldwater's frank and fatally unpopular rejection of the big-budget entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. (When the G.O.P. Congress made a feint at Medicare last year, its approval rating plummeted.) The predictable result was a massive increase in the federal deficit, $1.5 trillion over eight years, and a crisis that reopened the split between supply-siders and fiscal conservatives like Dole and George Bush. To this day, movement conservatives resent Dole...
While Administration officials described the President's role as merely "facilitating," AA's chairman Robert Crandall grumbled that he acquiesced because he was leaned on. If that sounded insincere, the feint let Crandall, whose company hemorrhaged more than $10 million for each day of the strike, set a hardball tone for the upcoming arbitration, where both sides will put their cases before a third party...
...Nightingale Hospital -- Britain's version of the Betty Ford Center -- has intimated that Jackson may be undergoing psychodrama therapy for drug use. No officials of the clinic, however, will say whether the star is actually there. Some Jackson watchers have downplayed the drug angle, speculating that it is a feint to draw attention away from the child-molestation charges...
American movies are all talk, no listen. Jabber jabber, feint feint -- conversation is combat, a schoolyard dissing contest, a slightly more sophisticated version of "Your mother!" "No, yours!" In real life, and in French movies, people pretend to get along when they talk. They keep things light, genial, talking around the issues that burn them up inside. Some love affairs never begin because people are afraid to reveal what they feel; "I love you" is so hard to say. Some marriages can last a lifetime on the tacit agreement that hostilities will go unexpressed. The static is in the silences...