Word: objections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...version of E.L. Doctorow's novel--adapted by Terrence McNally, directed by Frank Galati, with songs by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty--has already had successful runs in Toronto and Los Angeles (and was named by TIME as best theater event of 1997). Finally, Broadway audiences can see the object of all the fuss--a brilliant work of musical storytelling, social comment and canny staging that marks a glorious culmination for the American musical at the end of its first century...
...every case we shall be careful not to say anything unworthy ourselves [sic] or them. Wild and general accusations, in which the plainest thing is the author's bitterness, do not get or deserve much attention. But to a carefully considered, temperate article nobody ought to object; for, though its ideas are unsound, they are less likely to be harmful if stated fully and clearly than if left to spread through the college in the disjointed form of conversation. The error will be detected sooner, and, as a rule, college men are too honorable to side with what they...
...that I object to your being a bastard, don't get me wrong there. It's your being such a stupid bastard." So said Lee Tracy to Cliff Robertson in The Best Man (1964), Franklin J. Schaffner's classy political nail-biter about pre-nomination maneuvering...
...NuSouth partners see themselves as taking on giants like Polo and Tommy Hilfiger. They object to the way those mainstream manufacturers are, in their view, "pimping" urban culture. "A $25 Hilfiger T shirt means nothing," challenges Evans, who, like Quintero, is black. "This is an empowering message for us, by us and about...
Whether that kind of attitude prevails in the U.S. is another question, and the House of Rubin will be watching closely in coming weeks. Some lawmakers will surely attack the new aid package after the holiday recess. Populist Democrats will object to any bailout of Wall Street speculators, and conservative Republicans will see little to praise in a taxpayer subsidy for a foreign government. The White House will defend its actions, noting that Korea is strategically more important than other Asian nations...