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...FRAMEWORK is clearly apt when so few details need to be tampered with. All the modernizations are properly minimal, though an anachronism or two grates on the nerves--nobody holds bear-baitings in a Hollywood garden. The romantic setting proves its appropriateness most triumphantly in the discovery of a way to get away with Malvolio's yellow stockings (an imaginative coup too tunny to reveal...
...source of infinite confusion all the same. Samuels' production, big and ornate, is patterned after a 1940s movie, along the lines of The Philadelphia Story or Bringing Up Baby. In the sumptuous settings and romantically stylized plots of these classic Hepburn-Tracy films. Samuels sees a modern theatrical framework that suits Shakespeare's comedies. His production, based on this motif, bursts with the jest and joys of love, as various sets of lovers "cast off their masks and earn the right to marry...
...discussing the economic policies of previous, administrations, Reynolds said, "Models don't work--supply-side economics is talking human behavior." He said that supply-side economics would provide the framework for efficient and long-term growth...
...that it is their function to chart that flow, toward liberty, or capitalism, or the national state. Foucault claims, by contrast, that there are sharp breaks-"discontinuities," he calls them-separating one historical period from another. At each such break, the new age unconsciously creates a new intellectual framework for its view of the world...
Foucault calls this framework an episteme, from the Greek word for science or knowledge. It represents a radically different sense of whether a statement is true, even of what life itself...