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...that, but he knew the teen genre because in high school he worked as a children's librarian, and as part of the job he downed all the young-adult classics. The Mr. T Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television address, and Institutionalized Misogyny name-checks Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. Another ditty neatly summed up male teenage sexual frustration with the song title Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend...
DIED. Joseph Ungaro, 76, journalist whose question at a 1973 editors' conference--about whether Richard Nixon had accurately reported his income taxes--prompted Nixon to reply "I am not a crook," the line that forever haunted him; in South Kingstown...
...wife Rose, his constant colleague and support, were lifelong friends of my parents Herbert and Mildred Stein after they met at the University of Chicago in the mid '30s. My father, a distinguished economist himself and chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Nixon and briefly under Ford, forever stood in awe of the man. As my pop said many times, "Friedman was like every other economics student at Chicago in those days except twice as smart...
...Pinochet dictatorship in Chile was widely reviled, but Chile is now the free-market powerhouse of the Andes and a democracy. These principles paid off for whole populations in South America, in Russia and in Asia. He was the mentor to Ronald Reagan, to Bush 41, even to Nixon--who did not quite believe just how strong Friedman's arguments were and went ahead and imposed ineffectual price-wage controls...
...universe, lazy direction and one-note acting are not distorting what is actually a very good play.The Huntington Theatre Company has brought “Rabbit Hole” to Boston directly on the heels of a Broadway run that earned five Tony nominations, including one win for Cynthia Nixon, who originated the role of the mother, Becca. What is confusing about this production, running through Dec. 3 at the Boston University Theatre, is that the raw material in Lindsay-Abaire’s script is so excellent—in the deft hands of Nixon and Tony-nominated director...