Word: mentions
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...three and a half hours, the play leaves the audience in psychological and physical exhaustion. This is not to mention the demands it makes upon the actors (the original Broadway production had two sets of actors to split up matinees and evening performances). The Cambridge Theater Company has assembled a stellar cast for this most grueling of Edward Albee's plays. Sally Kellerman's Martha is everything she's supposed to be: funny, sensuous, scathing and just this side of schizophrenic...
Holding all this meta-action together is Skip Sneeringer as the imperious Chairman. On stage the entire performance, Sneeringer is hysterically funny as he tries to keep his cast on course. When a mention of "the ship H.M.S. Pinafore" leads to a chorus of sailors dancing on stage, he fumes at them forgetting their shows confused, shouting, "off, off" as he pushes them off stage. Even when he is merely sipping a glass of wine while watching a scene, his presence adds immeasurably to the show. With witty remarks and remarkable charm, Sneeringer turns an amusing show into a captivating...
...turns out that to use NT, you need a lot of RAM and a large hard drive, not to mention a lightning-fast microprocessor...
What the fierce partisans never mention is that the immediate economic effects are likely to be relatively small. The Administration, for example, projects a net gain of 200,000 American jobs in the next two years. That sounds impressive, but it is not much more than the 150,000 new jobs the U.S. domestic economy is creating every month, even at the present sluggish rate of employment growth. On the other side, Perot keeps talking about a "giant sucking sound" of factories, money and jobs being vacuumed into Mexico from the U.S. He is almost the only...
...costs of trade barriers. And of course they're less severe. But they're there. Just one example: surely Mexico's 20% tariff on American automobiles, which would be phased out under NAFTA, keeps Mexicans from buying American cars. Why is that good? Why doesn't Ross Perot mention...