Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, you will recall, are the very rich television producers (Designing Women, Evening Shade) who caused a stir during the early days of the Clinton Administration on account of their close friendship with the President and his wife and their constant presence at the White House. Washington has changed considerably since then: the Thomasons have been swept out of town (or at least out of sight) and the Republicans have swept in. All of which may have sharpened the Thomasons' sense of outrage but not their satirical skills...
...really always stressed that friendship and the working-class communities in Cambridge were such an important facet in Cambridge life," the councillor recalls. "I want very much for working-class people to be more involved with the city's government...
Eight gay men on three summer weekends: a simple device for Terrence McNally's elegant meditations on manhood and friendship, maturity and mortality. This witty, generous, intimate epic (in a pristine off-Broadway production directed by Joe Mantello) follows McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart and A Perfect Ganesh. By now he has to be rated our most consistently satisfying playwright...
...reviving the cold war. In the midst of his blast during the CSCE meeting, Yeltsin took care to insist, "We are no longer enemies, but partners." But however one- sided his expression, there is a very real danger that what just a short time ago looked like a blossoming friendship will indeed degenerate into a mere cold peace...
...Russia strains may get even worse when the new Republican Congress takes office. While the Clinton Administration has made friendship with Moscow a top foreign-policy priority, the conservatives who will run key committees are inclined to mistrust even a non-Communist Russia. In particular, some incoming congressional powers are likely to look on Russian financial aid with a jaundiced eye, believing -- with some reason -- that much of it has been stolen or misused. They may try either to cut the total, or to redirect some of it to Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. That would intensify another Russian...