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More specifically, I bring some passions based on my experiences. I've loved politics ever since I covered it as a newspaper reporter in Louisiana (the place, along with Chicago and Boston, where it is practiced with the most gusto) and then as a correspondent for this magazine. We must convey the human entertainment of campaigns, and also their true meanings...
...plays--spoiler or kingmaker or king--Buchanan has already remodeled the tone and the substance of the G.O.P. race. Despite Census Bureau figures and polls that show flat wages are a central concern of most Americans, Buchanan is the only G.O.P. candidate to address the issue directly and with gusto. The left-wing Nation magazine calls Buchanan "the closest thing to a genuine populist in the 1996 race." The others seem to have found no way to talk about income inequality without offending their affluent base of supporters and campaign contributors. While Buchanan strikes a populist note...
Reagan Messer plays the Jester who informs the town of the Prince's search with a lot of gusto, but has no vivid choreography to back her up. Paul Thrussell as the Father, and Robin Ries as the Mother, also flail around randomly...
Kassebaum has undertaken the task of cutting $10 billion in federal loans and grants with repulsive gusto. The most ludicrous part of her plan calls for colleges to pay a two percent fee on all federal loans. Perhaps the senator needs another lesson in basic economics, this time on efficient taxes...
...much like viewing the old melodies through a kaleidoscope. Fisk would have done well to lose himself a little more in the ideas of these pieces, rather than focusing significantly on embellishment. He executed the last selection, a genuine if overly scripted "Notre Dame Blues," With appropriate gusto, smiling visibly for the first time while playing. Perhaps he was considering the incongruity of Rochberg's brand of smokestack lightning--replete with twangs and even a couple of slides--amidst the Gardner's 15th century surroundings...