Word: ideas
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Revising an established text is not always a good idea. For instance, no one in their right mind would change "To be or not to be" to "Dude! What the fuck?" in order to modernize Hamlet. But there are plenty of crazies out there (especially in theater). Ambitious writers who love to take on such dangerous tasks as rewriting Shakespeare, Jonson or Middleton are not rare...
...hysterical. But it is also cheap. Auletta's changes are so self-conscious that Dorine, while discussing her mistress's illness and the use of leeches to cure it, comments to the audience how odd it is that they are making all these modern references and have no idea what modern medicine is. Why didn't Auletta just change Moliere's references to leeches, too? Because he wanted to wave to the audience, and yell, "Hey, I'm here...
...will not be achieved without some sacrifices. Indeed, Dionne barely even mentions the need for cuts in defense spending or tax increases on the wealthy; that would sound too much like the old, liberal solutions Dionne wants to avoid. They Only Look Dead makes one feel good about the idea of government; but it is paying for government that drives people into the arms of the Republican Party. A fairer society can't be fudged into existence with warm, fuzzy phrases about "Progressivism" until the nation makes a genuine commitment to paying...
...genesis for this idea began last summer, while Silberstein was employed...
George T. Osterkamp, the segment's producer, said he got the idea for the piece from Dayton Duncan, an author who has written about the New Hampshire primary. Dayton, a friend of Isaacs', had planned to go with the class on their field trip...