Word: hearings
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Questions of leadership pop up frequently. Disappointed by Michael Dukakis' refusal "to stand on his hind legs and fight," Mamet drafts a strong and dignified speech that he and the reader would have liked to hear the Democratic candidate deliver. As a playwright, he argues that actors and directors should not freely interpret his scripts; as a film director (House of Games) he discovers that contrary to the cliche that making movies is a collaborative business, the enterprise is and must be strictly hierarchical. Having succeeded in the theatrical rat race against committees and long odds, it is not surprising...
...stay in baseball, I may never have to grow up." The same goes for the fan, especially at long distance. Just checking S.P.B.A. stats in USA Today keeps the faithful in touch with the game's liturgy. To catch a Senior game on a remote radio signal -- to hear "Bobby Bonds now batting against Rollie Fingers" -- is to be time-warped into any fan's favorite baseball era: Back When...
...York Times proclaimed, THE COLD WAR IS OVER. President Bush has rightly taken issue with that statement. But as the "spirit of Malta" washes over the West, he may soon find that he is a very lonely member of a virtually silent minority. On all sides we hear that Western ideas have won and that Communism has been defeated. And yet a Communist named Gorbachev is the most popular man in Europe...
...Chinese people has doubled. In the five years of Gorbachev's rule, the per capita income of the Russian people has gone down. But while Gorbachev has only marginally changed the Soviet Union, he has profoundly changed the world, simply by saying what many in the West want to hear after generations of Soviet intransigence...
...couldn't do anything," said Nkenge A. McLin '93, "Every time I tried to take a nap, I could hear kids...