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...compromise is needed in enacting Reagan's programs. For two years we should defer those proposals that will have a harsh impact on the nation's poor, minorities and cities. After all, no 50-year addict can go cold turkey overnight. If Reagan is right, then the private sector will have made progress in alleviating the problems. If Reagan is wrong, then a disaster will have at least been deferred...
Kohout adopts a harsh, cynical style, over-whelming us with facts about medieval torture and penological fictions. In the first pages of the novel, Wolf's description of the role of the executioner, as the last judge rather than as a murderer, intrigues with its exuberance and simplicity, and tempts with its logic...
...cacaphony, the clash of old and new, of Islamic and Western ways, is harsh and sometimes bizarre. A $500 million 200-unit apartment complex in Jidda has yet to be occupied nearly a year after completion, because religious conservatives objected to the lack of separate elevators for women. Concedes the city's young mayor, Mohammed Said Farsi, an architect educated in Egypt and Britain: "Our biggest problem has been too rapid expansion...
...scenery is awkward too: the uglier neighborhoods in Cambridge. D'arcy Marsh's camerawork shows an every-day, harsh, concrete environment inside the cramped rooms or outside in the projects. Yet Donna looks almost lyrical as she sits dejectedly outside a beer factory after fighting with a cop and slumping into the weeds, illustrating the beauty that can be found on Cambridge's starker side...
...more surprising. Althought McKellen, 41, is regarded on home ground in England as the pre-eminent stage actor of his generation, the class of a very classy field, he has been on Broadway only once before, in a short-lived Russian play staged in 1967. By the harsh standards of Broadway, McKellen before Amadeus was less a reality than a reputation. Even now he receives no applause of respectful recognition when he starts to speak in the first act. But when he reappears for the start of the second, the applause sounds like a curtain call. And when the curtain...