Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have, and I wouldn't." Because he has been the subject of so many lies--"the far right tried to convince the American people that I had committed murder, run drugs, slept in my mother's bed with four prostitutes," he said--Clinton developed what he calls "a high level of paranoia." So high, in fact, that he instructs his staff to put up no window treatments in the Oval Office or his private study, "no curtains or blinds that can close the windows in my private dining room." When asked whether he had used his power as Governor...
...think being a female adds to the facilitation of alliance formation," one female student said. "We all have a lot of things in common, struggles...and at the woman level. And by nature I think women are more naturally bonding...
...biggest tension has been on the political level," said one student from Los Angeles. "There is a question [as to] where these limited resources are going...
Initially, his characters' worries carry a touching level of insight into the sources of modern emotional malaise. Karen, awaking from eighteen years of slumber, describes how suddenly "nobody seems to be able to endure being by themselves...but at the same time they're isolated. People work much more, only to go home and surf the Internet and send e-mail rather than calling or writing a note or visiting each other." Yet as the story plows on, the barrage of philosophical ramblings begin to take on a preachy tone which descends into irritating evangelism. In the end, ghost-jock...
...Orton's play, whileadmittedly poking fun at society's ridiculousapprehensions towards sex, also engages on a levelof social, democratic and metaphysical discourse.This plane is too easily lost in the muddle ofsexual farce as entertainment. But despite theirnarrow focus, the Loeb Ex production of Butlerclearly succeeds at least on this level--it istruly a hilarious and frolicking show.CrimsonLinda S. CuckovichNaked hi-jinks abound in Orton farce...