Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know what they do: the politician who spews platitudes at ethnic voters. The guy who patronizes women on the issue of sexual harassment. The big-city police chief who downplays his department's gang beating of an errant motorist. What don't these folks do? They don't "get it." Suddenly the phrase is everywhere, a shorthand K.O. punch that vaporizes opponents by skewering their lack of social intelligence. And for public figures it can be fatal. If you just don't get it, you're hopelessly out of touch...
...interested in alienating the audience. I believe in the system. I'm acutely conscious of the business in this town and how I organize my career. As an actor you must have self-knowledge and an understanding of your limits. I know I can't play a Chicano gang leader, but I could play Queen Victoria. I'm also a structure hound. If the choices are too great, I'm paralyzed...
...Yeah. Most people I know who aren't from the art school gang, they're off to a new job every year or two. They [the jobs] usually never pay more than 28, 30 [thousand dollars] a year. But they'd much rather do that than sit. I don't think anyone honestly expects to collect a single penny they pay into social security. I think everyone acknowledges that it's going to go bankrupt or kaput. The day you want to go collect your money the system will have just gone bankrupt buying a jewelled stereo system for Jane...
Still, Beckel is clearly the creative force behind the show, which expands on Capital Gang's "Outrages of the Week" and the McLaughlin Group's "Predictions" by offering every week a "Star," a "Goat" AND a "Back Page" from each host--which are, respectively, an upbeat story, an angering one and one that received little attention...
When Eddie is forced through blackmail to aid a gang of hoodlums bent on disrupting the flight, his feelings are those which one would expect from a "simple" man. "He hated crooks. Too greedy to live like regular people and too lazy to earn a buck, they cheated and stole from hardworking citizens and lived high on the hog...The electric chair was too good for them...