Word: points
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Grossman made a similar point. "Something like 65 percent of congressmen used to hold some local office," he said. By concentrating on such activities, he said, "you'll have an impact on the next generation of leaders...
...back and forth and sitting down and getting up that detracts from the action of the play. There are several scenes in which nothing really happens except that the characters circle around the stage and come back to where they started. Lengthy pauses are another shortcoming. There is one point in which some Nazi guards stand in front of a bench for about five minutes without a single word, and then one of them remarks that he is tired of waiting--how about the audience? Another downfall lies in the excessive hugging in this play. The relationships within the French...
...This play should be applauded as a spirited attempt to make a new point about the war and its effect on certain families, but it is not as piercing as Life is Beautiful; the director-writer's vision falls apart at the seams because of the slow pace, unnecessary pauses, unrealistic acting and especially because the ambiguity is in danger of simply confusing the viewer instead of emphasizing the universality of the sadness and suffering that the war caused...
...orchestrating this? Is Albright is suffering from delusions of grandeur in suggesting that her accepting culpability for this decision would be enough to neutralize abortion-rights proponents? Or is she taking one for the team, sacrificing herself on the altar of the Clinton administration's foreign policy? At this point, it's hard to tell. "It certainly would be convenient for the nonpolitical side of the administration to take the heat for a decision like this," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "The fact that she's a woman doesn't hurt, either." A willingness by the White House...
...taught objectively. "After the 1962 ruling a lot of administrators, just to be on the safe side, banned almost any mention of religion from their schools," says Van Biema. "But to some extent the evangelicals who've been active on the subject of religion in schools have a point, that administrators have been overreactive in keeping any mention of religion out of the classroom." The willingness of some of the fiercest opponents and proponents of religion in schools to sign on to this compromise could ease tensions among school districts over letting the Bible into the classroom. Which means...