Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suicide in B Flat and Action: by Sam Shepard, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge...
Finally, a special mention must go to Robert Loggia. In the role of Sam Ransom, a private investigator, he is direct, foul-mouthed, and undeniably charming. Just as Jagged Edge threatens to take itself too seriously, Loggia breezes in with Sam's own perverse and sanely brusque opinion of the murderer and his crime: "Fuck him," he comments, dismissing in one succinct phrase every emotionally contrived moment in the movie...
...heroes are Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the prince and princess of the avant-garde underworld. Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, Warhol and Sedgwick comprise but one pair of a cult-worshipped court of legendary hearts handed the scepter and deposed just as quietly by generations of kids searching casually for heroes. I ask her why she likes Warhol...
...understood the need for tariffs. Protectionist politicking, however, could not save the Republicans in 1932. Smoot and Hawley joined Hoover in defeat. The Democrats dismantled the G.O.P.'s legislative handiwork with caution, using reciprocal trade agreements rather than across-the-board tariff reductions. The Smoot-Hawley approach was discredited. Sam Rayburn, House Democratic Speaker from 1940 until 1961, insisted that any party member who wanted to serve on the Ways and Means Committee had to support reciprocity, not protectionism...
...protectionist surge, indeed, has been pushing some legislators into action against their better judgment. Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons, chairman of a Ways and Means subcommittee on trade, returned in early September from a 24-day swing through Asia alarmed by the prospects of foreign retaliation against American exports, especially farm products, if the bill restricting U.S. textile imports became law. "The Chinese told us without any equivocation, 'If we can't sell you our products, we can't buy your products,' " reported Gibbons. His conclusion: the bill is "about as horrible a piece of legislation as you can imagine." Still...