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...also regards Cuba as "far more just" than most of the world's nations because it supposedly has eliminated poverty. He explains that he did not press Castro about such sensitive subjects as discrimination against religious believers in government hiring and in universities because "I didn't want to interrupt him with questions that would put him on the defensive...
...limitations, whether fantasy sometimes infringes a bit much on reality. Perhaps even the owners sometimes allow this distinction to blur. Says Rudolf: "At least two or three times a month someone will take his clothes off on a platform and maybe jerk off. But I'm not going to interrupt an act in the middle. It's art on stage. And that's untouchable...
...before Rostenkowski decided to interrupt the tax-reform deliberations, he saw that the package was in danger of unraveling. The Ways and Means Committee rejected proposals by Reagan and Rostenkowski and voted to allow taxpayers who do not itemize deductions to continue to write off donations to charity. Moreover, the committee opted to widen a $2.9 billion loophole for commercial banks that the President and its chairman sought to close. It decided not to abolish a tax deduction for banks on money reserved to cover possible bad debts. Instead the committee increased the banks' tax break by $4.7 billion over...
Leaming's goal was more ambitious, and Welles egged her on. "I think there's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present," Welles told her. She took his advice and decided to interrupt her narrative every once in a while with italic chapters in which she rather portentously describes herself interviewing Welles. At the end, she writes about herself talking to Welles while he in turn is thinking about directing a movie about himself, a movie in which somebody else will play the 22-year-old Welles defying Washington opposition to stage Marc Blitzstein...
...candid shots of life on the range aren't pretty. While postcard-stills of the sleeping town before sunrise frequently interrupt the screen, the camera focuses for the most part on relentlessly exposing the routine exhaustion of life in the pits: from the hard day's labor in the mines to the hardluck boozers in the C & W saloon. The tight angles force the audience into contact, and often an unsettling intimacy, with the heavy mundaneness of lower middle class life. One has scenes of a locker room echoing with weeping after lay-off notices, the crew trading sandwiches...