Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bacchae is nearly 2400 years old, but it contains all of the grimness and gore of a modern-day shoot-em-up. The trouble for player and audience alike is that all of the action-violent, sexual and otherwise-occurs off-stage, and director Oleson has few ideas on how to make the play's lengthy, demanding speeches very affecting. Too often, the actors race through their tirades in effort to convey passion and fury; they end up losing their audience instead...
...talking about Novelist Gore Vidal, disparager of all mankind, Reagan got a twinkle in his eye and allowed as how even Vidal might err. A passage in Vidal's novel Lincoln had the Great Emancipator standing in the White House staring out of a window. By his calculation, chuckled Reagan, if Lincoln had been where Vidal placed him, he would not have seen what Vidal described...
...like "with all due respect." Jesse Jackson and Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, the orators of the group, seemed to believe that flights of rhetoric would be unseemly at such a high-tone forum. Two of the technocratic moderates in the race, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., were largely content to enhance their images of quiet competence. That void left Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Illinois Senator Paul Simon and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt in charge of providing charisma, a task akin to asking Comedian Jay Leno to dance Swan Lake...
Most dramatic face-off. Gore, who formally declared his candidacy two days before the debate, displaying the confidence of a veteran in challenging Buckley not once but twice over the validity of a study debunking the Strategic Defense Initiative. In the end it was Buckley who retreated with the words, "I think we're just going to have to move...
Michael Dukakis, an intellectual prisoner of the Massachusetts statehouse, thinks of defense policy as "one if by land, two if by sea." Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt has such difficulty with decisions that he chose plaid when asked to select a color for his campaign. Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, struggling to become the old Confederacy's new champion for 1988, chose "Southern" as his foreign language when attending a posh Washington prep school...