Word: retreatism
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Once they had recruited the right people, they needed the right message, and here it was the Democrats who thought they had the upper hand. On July 19, Frist's committee hosted a retreat for donors at the West Virginia resort Greenbrier. That day alone, the stock market slid 390 points; the White House was bracing for the mid-August restatement of corporate income, which was expected to increase pressure on Bush to crack down on the kind of people who had assembled at the resort. "It felt like a funeral," recalls Bainwol. Democrats were calling for the scalp...
...boys do too, where life tastes delicious and where wives and worries are left at home. Outside, however, Germany sits partially trembling and partially blind on the eve of Nazism. Ultimately, the political situation renders the inside less lascivious and more escapist; the Kit Kat Klub transforms into a retreat from Hitler’s Third Reich...
...brings her own directing style to this production. Always forcing her actors to “make it new,” Jarcho disdains the idea of “going into character.” Rather, she challenges her actors to be with the audience. They should not retreat or build a fourth wall when acting. During rehearsals, at one point Jarcho has two characters deliver their lines as though every line were the punch line to a joke. Though Lightbody fusses about this method (“There are some things that I just want...
...Jiang Zemin and George W. Bush chowed down on a barbecue lunch last week at Bush's Crawford ranch retreat in Texas, they were the picture of congeniality-even taking a tour of the ranch in Bush's pickup truck. But was this just a pose for the cameras, or the beginning of a genuinely warm friendship between the two giant nations? Neither. For both countries, being pragmatic and reaching an accommodation with each other has become a matter of the highest policy priority. It's not that they want so much to be with one another, but that they...
...ROYAL RETREAT Two hours' drive south from Trincomalee is Polonnaruwa, one of the three corners of Sri Lanka's "Cultural Triangle" of ancient capitals. The ruins there can be explored by car or cycle, but every visitor would be well advised to stop at the new archaeological museum located near the entrance to the Royal Palace group before starting a tour. The museum's scale models offer a fair idea of how the site once looked. Armed with a mental picture of the medieval capital complete with wooden roofs and waterways, it's much easier to reimagine the city from...