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...terms (and for a thrifty $16 million or so), the ploy works: it's the societal psychosis from which the lovers flee and to which they ultimately succumb. Luhrmann, an Australian who pretty much let his camera go nuts in the egregiously overrated Strictly Ballroom, here makes reasonable, imaginative decisions that are, arguably, true to Shakespeare. "His stories are full of sex, violence, tragedy, comedy because he was, first of all, a great entertainer," Luhrmann says. "His audience was 3,000 drunken, fighting people, bear baiters and prostitutes." Sounds like a Friday-night crowd at a big-city 'plex...
Souder is a steady conservative, but has shunned partisan politics. He voted against the balanced-budget amendment and thought repealing the gasoline tax was a political ploy. Making lower federal taxes a priority, he supports a constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds congressional vote to raise taxes. Souder is not likely to let up in his push for less government, which should be popular in a district that gave Bush a hefty victory...
Rehberg is running for the Senate by charging directly at incumbent Max Baucus. The state's lieutenant governor says Baucus has moved toward the right in an election-year ploy to earn conservative support, voting for the line-item veto and the balanced-budget amendment, both of which Rehberg also supports. With statewide name recognition, Rehberg should be more challenging than Baucus' 1990 opponent, who lost by 32 points...
...Stockman unseated 42-year incumbent Jack Brooks in 1994 with a shrewd one-issue campaign--opposing gun control--that resonated with the district's large gun-owning population. In Congress Stockman has drawn fire for such positions as calling the Waco raid on the Branch Davidian compound a ploy by federal agencies to build support for the assault-weapons...
...News & World Report "rankings" were a clever ploy to build up Yale's confidence, only to have it be shattered on the athletic field. This makes a whole lot of sense. All three losses happened when Yale just didn't have enough guts to pull out the win--with their women's soccer team giving up the deciding goal with 11 seconds left, to their men's soccer and field hockey teams being utterly impotent in overtime...