Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics as Usual. What happened to Carvalho Pinto is typical of how Goulart operates. Pinto's predecessor as Finance Minister was Francisco San Tiago Dantas, whose promises of fiscal good behavior brought $398.5 million in U.S. aid at a tight moment. Dantas lasted less than six months before Goulart fired him. To quiet the outcries of the fiscal community, Goulart put in Carvalho Pinto, a hardheaded conservative. For a time Pinto was able to stop the endless cranking out of meaningless new currency; he also fought against featherbedded government payrolls, called on workers and management to hold down wages...
...begins at 4 a.m.; by sunup, she is ready for business-often with a derby on her head, a strong cigar between her teeth, an infant at her breast. While her five or six older chil dren scurry underfoot and her common-law husband of the moment snores the day away, she haggles and harangues, using every wile to turn a profit. She rigs prices, forms miniature cartels, organizes rock-solid unions that defy municipal authorities...
...spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen, for at that very moment the British flag was fluttering down for the last time in neighboring Kenya...
...moment, there are three ways of attacking the problem. The simplest is to raise the humidity in the room. But even in the era of built-in air condition ing, this is more easily said than done. Even if it can be done, excessive humidity results in moisture condensing on the windows in cold weather. The second is to spray antistatic chemicals on the rug. But the available antistatic sprays, which are similar to preparations for neutralizing phonograph records, are only temporarily effective and tend to leave a tacky residue that makes them get dirty more easily. The third method...
...mind at the breaking point, June has a revelation of self in this unholy place. She finds her courage, she knows she will not break or punk out. The purpose of the play is this epiphany, and in the unsparing childlike ardor of Julie Harris' performance, the moment is as theatrically galvanizing as that of the child Helen Keller learning her first word in sign language...