Word: merchant
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...director who brought composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman together for Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991). He is known for his unconventional settings of operas and plays: he set Mozart's Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, and only last year he moved The Merchant of Venice to Venice, California, just down the beach from Malibu. Always a skillful director of actors and stage movement, Sellars has often seemed capricious in his grand recontextualizations. But in this case, he has created a modern setting that is ingeniously apt and vivid...
...weapons to U.S. allies, rather than reduce sales, as the defense industry had once feared.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays that despite Clinton's 1992 campaign promise to cut back on arms sales sharply, the new policy "does nothing to reduce the U.S role as the world's leading arms merchant." Like its predecessors, he says, the Administration still "allows a wide variety of weapons to be sold to a wide variety of nations." Defense contractors did come up one short on their wish list, though: The White House refused to continue U.S. loan guarantees to foreign countries, though contractors insisted...
...other changes in rules, though more arcane, are just as crucial and welcome: among them, eliminating three committees and 25 subcommittees, cutting the size of committee staffs by a third, limiting chairmen to six years on the job and the Speaker to eight. The Democrats were skeptical. "Eliminating the Merchant Marine Committee? Big deal!" scoffed Charles Schumer of New York...
...tarmac and instructed them to crawl toward the terminal, where the wounded were given emergency treatment, mostly for scrapes and bruises. The rear cabin was filled with smoke, riddled with stray gunfire and rocked by grenade blasts. "The bullets were flying all around me," recounted one passenger, an Algerian merchant marine captain. "We expected death, we were waiting for the explosion," said another Algerian passenger, Ali Kalak. "We never thought there would be such a successful intervention...
...rich merchant's son named Fuqui (played by Ge You, who won the best-actor prize at the Cannes festival this year) waters the local casino tables with his father's fortune. Fuqui is a cool dude in line for comeuppance, and he soon learns humility the hard way; it arrives like a 30- ( year plague. He and his wife (Gong Li) are bankrupted, then branded as decadent curs. But the pestilence is not localized; every family suffers. In the '60s, doctors are locked up, leaving the hospitals in the control of those bullying incompetents, the Red Guards. All that...