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...outrage on Capitol Hill. Reagan had to disclaim it. For a man who served two terms in the Senate, Schweiker showed himself surprisingly inept in dealing with Congress. He earns a middling C, but only because he does not deserve blame for all of what has happened in his realm...
...before silicon chips, believed that man could attain Mortality through Play. Man would play. He would develop his aesthetic senses and grasp Beauty, even the Sublime. The revolutions of the 19th century would not occur: "No privilege, no autocracy of any kind, is tolerable where taste rules, and the realm of aesthetic semblance extends its sway." The California hot-tub view of history...
With winter steadily approaching and the erratic Business School Field scoreboard already collecting dust in hibernation, the season is rapidly fading into the realm of memory. It's about this time that all those treks across the river to Dillon to get changed and taped, and then out to the practice field, lose their distinctiveness and melt into one all-encompassing pilgrimage...
...whole human race," he says. "You just can't let them down. That's the great thing about playing a lead role--you're so much involved in the fate of the show that you just push and push and before you know it, you're in this crazy realm where you're really acting. Acting is in that empyrean when it's that good. It's totally religious--it's for the sake of something bigger...
...dimensions of that love are tested and proved in the course of the play. On the eve of appearing in King Lear, Sir has abdicated the realm of sanity, gone mad before his cue. In the aftermath of an air raid, he has fled into the center of town and shredded his clothes in a driving rain. Hospitalized, he releases himself and bombards his way into his own dressing room. What Norman is confronted with is a shuddering, sobbing hulk of a man who cannot remember the first lines of a play he has performed 426 times...