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Growing up near Lambeau Field, I could hear the roar of the crowd through my windows. I can tell you, pride in the team runs deep. The small town of Green Bay is color-blind to race and full of people just trying to earn a living and enjoy some football. The Packers are a group of individuals from around the country who have come together and put their differences aside to work toward a common goal. Maybe the country can learn something from the players on the Green Bay team about the values that really matter. MARK SCANLAN Hartford...
...roar of the crowd was deafening, and the cheers did not sub-side for the rest of the game. Especially notable were the humorous taunts by a very vocal Dunster A entryway section...
More important, the British don't overcompensate by caricaturing the native milieu of these very American plays. In Hall's Streetcar the run-down New Orleans neighborhood where Blanche finds her sister Stella living could probably do without the roar of a passing train drowning out the dialogue every few minutes (a Streetcar Named Deafening). But nearly everything else in the production is delicate and understated, starting with Lange's touching and unfussy portrayal of Blanche. Toby Stephens (the son of actress Maggie Smith), an improbably fine-boned actor to be playing Stanley Kowalski, misses the brutishness (and the humor...
...reform bill, Clinton can push for it without having to concern himself that it will actually happen. To prove he's serious about the matter, Clinton would have to go beyond a legislative proposal and orchestrate an immense grass-roots campaign, a full-throated national roar so long and loud that reform becomes inevitable. But a President known for renting out the Lincoln Bedroom may lack the stature to make that happen...
...Roar of the Crowd