Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following day Dole conferred with Reed in his Senate office and without preamble said he was going to resign. From the majority leadership? Reed asked. No, the whole shooting match, Dole replied. Reed recognized the "transformational" power of such a move and encouraged Dole to go with his own instinct. As a candidate unencumbered by office, he could follow his own version of triangulation, distancing himself from Newt and attacking Beltway Bill...
Believe as much of the bribery, suborning and general chicanery that follow as you want to. The trial is soured by corruption on both sides; even jury selection involves widespread spying on long lists of potential jurors. That doesn't altogether strain credibility. But when the jury is chosen and the leanings of one member, a supermarket manager, are learned to be in doubt, Big Tobacco buys his store's entire chain and offers him a fat salary, along with some thoughts on product litigation...
...quickly to the previous number, Private Conversation, and surrender to the pulse of a Saturday-night bar band. Maybe you don't dare face "the moral of this story," which is "to look at what you've been through/ And see what you've become." Not to sweat; just follow the Gospel According to Lyle: "Boy, pick up that fiddle,/ Ooh and play that steel guitar,/ Ooh and find your- self a lady,/ Ooh and dance right where you are." This buoyant song allows you to do nothing else. It proves there's no misery, public or private, so deep...
Telling one's husband to cut the lawn and seeing it done are two different things. Five days after Elizabeth's suggestion, nothing had changed. That's becoming a Dole campaign pattern--promises without follow-through. (Dole talked about convening some wise elders two months ago but dropped that ball.) This time, it wasn't clear from the family meeting who would select the new broom or carry out this housecleaning. Nor did Dole and his wife discuss any names. Instead something worse happened: news of the Doles' grumbling spread through Republican circles, setting off a round of maneuvering...
Adapted by Seth Weinstein from the book by Judith Guest, "Ordinary People" is not an upbeat story. As a fully sung musical this becomes even more apparent--all the songs follow the same sad format, hardly leaving the audience whistling on its way out. There was a message and some talent on display during the show's two weekends at the Agassiz Theater, but extracting all of it from the monotonously sung dialogue was a challenge...