Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have trained for, and that neither could have predicted would undo the Speaker rather than the President. Even as Gingrich set to sharpening the blades of the guillotine, his adversary stayed on message, made peace in the Middle East, waved John Glenn back into orbit and watched the Dow follow close behind, as Gingrich produced an impeachment spectacle that left voters gagging, and a budget that drew the same response from his own party. By the time the routine midterm election had dissolved into a humiliating defeat Tuesday at the polls, it was suddenly Gingrich whose judgment was challenged...
...approval rating, and the lottery is being hailed as the secret to the Democratic Party's astonishing rebirth in the South. Last week in Alabama and South Carolina, two states that had been trending hard toward the G.O.P., Democrats ousted sitting Republican Governors by single-mindedly pledging to follow Georgia into the scratch-and-win business. Political consultants predict the issue will dominate next year's legislative session in Tennessee and the Governor's race in North Carolina in the year...
While Poppea's libretto certainly sounds better than it reads as a plot, this production's singing was so fluent that I could follow the plot almost continuously. Also, I never really noticed that the actors were singing. The color and expression of various voices were at the forefront of the production, but none of the singing seemed staged. The four leads were particularly strong. Quilichi and D'Amelio occasionally swung a flat, everyday-speech exclamation into their performances, and Buff, in her transsexual role as Otto, single-handedly built the tension of the play, bellowing out against Poppea...
...Little Night Music presents a host of difficult musical numbers. The cast manages most of the solos well, but several of the multi-part songs are unbalanced and difficult to follow. The two- and three-part numbers work better when the entire cast is is involved and can sustain a consistent volume. Every character has at least one difficult solo, so the entire production demands an enormous amount of energy from the cast...
...problem was not that people were uninterested in seeing Whoopi lecture," Thomas S. Lee, coordinator of the Learning from Performers program, which brings visiting artists such as Goldberg to the University, said. "It's that the students didn't follow up and claim their tickets...