Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What does it all mean? Prascak defies his audience to find any meaning, which seems to be part of the point. Despite Prascak's claim that the principle behind his direction is "what the fuck," the play is far from random, but it avoids such conventions as plot and character development. This is confrontational theater, not for the faint of heart or the closed-minded. Though the show is little more than an hour long, few theatergoers would be willing to withstand more than a few minutes of it, even under alcoholic sedation...
Eight years later, however, Ronald Reagan and George Bush are going out of their way to make the transition between their two Republican administrations proceed as smoothly as possible. But that does not mean George Bush has it easy until he assumes office on January 20, 1989. The president-elect, with the help of his transition staff, must make thousands of political appointments and many policy decisions that will set the tenor of his administration...
...There is going to be much more of a transition along the lines of when [Lyndon] Johnson took over from President Kennedy," says David Runkel who covered the Reagan transition in 1980 for the Philadelphia Bulletin and is now IOP deputy director. "A Dukakis victory would mean a massive change in government, but under Bush, many people in the present administration will stay...
...think it would mean the death of rent control in a very short time," Sullivan says. "It's not in the interest of the average Cambridge citizen or the city in the future...
Tournament News: Connecticut and Boston University battled for the New England region championship last weekend, with the Terriers taking the title, 3-1. Changes in the tournament format--it is now played out according to seedings, rather than regions--mean that B.U. will travel to Indiana for its second-round contest...