Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just that--talk. It is hype created by politicians for the benefit of next year's presidential election. While they may talk about increasing the funding for public education or devoting all of the budget surplus to social security, their actions, like the recent decision to revoke the Glass-Steagall Act, demonstrate that their biggest interest is increasing our country's wealth, or more specifically, the wealth of the nation's top 10 percent...
...those of you who haven't taken American History in a while, Glass-Steagall was a law made after the Depression that mandated the separation of commercial, investment and insurance banking. In short, it meant that Joe Public had to go to three separate places to get a loan, invest in the stock market and buy insurance, rather than do all of his banking under the same roof. Visiting three different financial institutions is not an inconvenience to your run-of-the-mill investor. The vast majority of people use banks for modest loans, mortgages and various kinds of insurance...
Clearly, when revoking Glass-Steagall, the government wasn't thinking about the little man. The people who benefit from larger-than-life banks are those in perhaps the top 0.1 percent income range. The reforms enacted by Glass-Steagall hit the deep-pocketed very hard by diminishing the amount of money they could amass at a time. The Act's intent was to redistribute the balance of financial clout in the American economy and thereby prevent another financial crisis like the Depression...
...could easily be condensed into 15 minutes, it does have some redeeming qualities. The props and especially the costumes are delightful. One real window hangs in the middle of the stage. This window is used by both families, and links them in a way. Both families have only a glass window to protect them from the forces of the war; both mothers wave goodbye to their sons from this window. It stands as a symbol of the common human suffering behind...
...perhaps the most stunning piece was Edward Derwent's Dante's Inferno (1986). Although loosely based on Dante's allegory, the tapestry, a scintillating combination of glass beads and nylon thread, challenging the very medium of tapestry...