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Richard Nelson's quasi-historical piece about competing 19th century acting troupes, one led by a Briton and the other by an American, had moody staging by Jack O'Brien, three superb performances (by Brian Bedford, Victor Garber and Zjelko Ivanek) and an unjustly brief life on Broadway...
...this spirit of quasi-camaraderie that I must voice my concern over an article which appeared in the paper December 8 entitled, "Lampoon Compers Interrupt Club Even," by Alec E. Permison...
...clear that economies cannot indefinitely redistribute more wealth than they create. The emergence of the information society requires initiative and self-reliance rather than the setting of standardized tasks and centralized control. Moreover, the dislocations, including structural unemployment, of the "second industrial revolution" are not susceptible to the old quasi-socialist cures...
...mock -- about the duties and the life in and around the grand old mansion have faded. George Bush still gets misty-eyed wandering those corridors of history and confesses, "I love it here." Bill Clinton never got over his boyhood handshake with John Kennedy in the Rose + Garden -- a quasi-religious experience -- and he has devoted his life to going back there to live...
Perot had no firm strategy when he abruptly fled the race two months ago. Then, faced with headlines that branded him a quitter, and with the anger of disappointed loyalists, he quickly improvised a strange quasi-candidacy. At a cost of $480,000 a month, he is maintaining 64 field offices in addition to the Dallas headquarters. They operate as part of a new advocacy organization, United We Stand, which is also the title of a book he brought out in August. The slim volume contains the austere economic plan, including tax increases and spending cuts, that Perot never announced...