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...practicing private "political" law back in the '50s, Mondale has been campaigning for, or serving in, public office his entire adult life. His view of the nation and the world has been shaped from within the Government looking out. He has seen the private sector through the prism of lobbyists and favor seekers. Though he has drawn a six-figure salary as a Chicago lawyer for the past three years, his worth was measured by proximity to Government power. For nearly 30 years Mondale has devoted his life to spending other people's money in the belief that...
...music of their times: the Popular Front of 1936, the Occupation of 1940, the Liberation of '44, the G.I. invasion of '46, the first rock-'n'-roll siege in '56, the student uprising of May '68, all as refracted through the cracked prism of the Mitterrand...
LOGICALLY ENOUGH, the ideological framework that hinders economic recovery also perverts international political relations. The inability of the United States to see the world through anything other than an East-West prism is not a new factor, but has become particularly dangerous given the upheavals in Central America. The United States is presently engaged to some extent in El Salvador and Nicaragua. In both countries, the Administration is pursuing ideologically rigid policies that seem destined to fail...
...Some choreographers view music as a necessary evil, and blithely pillage masterworks to accompany their dances. Balanchine, a conservatory-trained pianist who might have had a concert career, was far more respectful. Watching him rehearse once. Martha Graham observed: "It's like watching light pass through a prism. The music passes through him, and in the same natural yet marvelous way that a prism refracts light, he refracts music into dance...
...Isenberg seems to have fun with Honey's exaggerated dippiness. The scenery is basic suburban tawdry, but someone had the good sense to place a large liquor cabinet overpoweringly in the middle of the stage, so that the audience like the characters, see the action through the All-American prism of alcohol...