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...going back there. I slammed my way out of there with all my might, and our unfortunate meeting reminded me of that other urge deep inside of me: the urge to keep slamming my way out, again and again, no matter what. The urge to rail out against whatever I must in order...
...Willy is played by Alun Armstrong (a veteran of musicals like Les Miserables as well as the original cast of Nicholas Nickleby), whose tidy little mustache, hangdog expression and Brooklyn accent anchor him firmly in the dreary everyday. Armstrong's Willy is a small man, too downtrodden even to rail with much conviction. It's an elegant production, the dominant stage image a tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk. The big scenes are somewhat muted (Marjorie Yates' Linda and Mark Strong's Biff are good if unmemorable) but the small ones achingly poignant--like...
...history proved, the surface self-satisfaction of those years turned out to be just that. Agrarians, like today's lower middle class and working poor, would soon demand greater access to government, complain of the too-close relationship between government and business, rail against monopolies, seek improved public education and generally strive to become a more integral part of America. By listening to their grievances, Andrew Jackson, beaten badly in the election of 1824, was hoisted to the White House four years later on nothing more specific than his boisterous belief in the dignity of the ordinary citizen...
...seems like nothing more than a witch hunt. Miller's store is clean, he's experienced, and his services aren't even unique. Yet the good citizens of Quincy seem convinced that the only way to safeguard their children is to ride Miller out of town on a rail. They don't seem to realize that if their children want to get pierced, they'll get pierced, and the only way to stop them is to sit them down and talk. But of course, finding a scapegoat is easy. Dealing with real problems in your family and community is hard...
...right and demanded the deepest cuts in popular domestic programs in their zeal for a balanced budget. Gone are at least six of 71 G.O.P. freshmen, including Dan Frisa of New York, who was defeated by Carolyn McCarthy, the widow of a victim of the Long Island Rail Road shooting, who ran on a single-issue platform: gun control...