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Since the play is set in the later stages of Bankhead's life, author Sandra Ryan Heyward makes Bankhead rail against the fates and begin to dissolve into self-pity. Perhaps this is understandable for a middle-aged actress whose career is going out the window and whose lovers are dwindling, but I am sure that the real Bankhead in the throes of self-pity was not a pleasant sight. Turner's portrayal is no more enjoyable, but just as the play seems to be mired down in whiskey-soaked emotion, Heyward throws out a wise-crack that shows Bankhead...
Professor of English James Engell '73 owns a permit, and though he says parking is a problem for many faculty members, he says lives in Acton and frequently takes the commuter rail into Cambridge and is thus less inconvenienced than other professors...
...Suddenly I was cool. In Los Angeles these days, going on strike is about the grooviest thing you can do short of wearing a hip-hoppy knit winter cap while lifting weights at Crunch next to Tobey Maguire. L.A.'s bus and rail operators have been on strike for about three weeks now in protest over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to eliminate some work rules and reduce overtime pay. The actors' unions recently set a record with the longest strike in Hollywood history, over pay for commercials. And already the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television...
...anticipated actors' and writers' strike will shut down all production, leaving 272,000 workers unemployed if the various factions of the entertainment industry don't avert the work stoppage between now and mid-2001, when contracts expire. I've realized that at the moment, 4,400 bus and rail operators are going without pay and 450,000 weekday public transportation users are struggling to get to work. So now I'm thinking that striking isn't actually cool at all - not even in Los Angeles, where follow-the-leader is everyone's favorite party game. So even though the writers...
...budget surplus over the next 10 years--$171 billion--to reducing America's reliance on oil and gas (and to clean up the environment). His program includes tax breaks to companies that use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, federal investments in light rail systems and high-speed trains, grants to small businesses to develop new energy-efficient technologies and tax breaks to families that purchase energy-saving cars, homes and appliances. Gore opposes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...