Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serious. Within a day after he unhinged the party establishment by winning the New Hampshire primary, his fellow Republicans started treating him as if he were a proposal to increase the capital-gains tax. On ABC's PrimeTime Live, General Colin Powell said Buchanan gives out "messages of intolerance." Sam Donaldson asked Powell whether he could vote for Buchanan for President if he were the Republican nominee. The general was crisp and clear...
...costs. To help local charities pick up any slack, Alexander would offer a $500 tax credit for every American to give to the group of their choice. The idea is to rekindle the personal involvement that G.O.P. virtuecrats like William Bennett say made for more "effective compassion" before Uncle Sam...
...part of politicians hurts the American people in the long run because it necessitates third-railing. The federal budget negotiations were third-railed and resulted in an impasse. Schools all over the country floundered to make crucial staff decisions without knowing how much money they would receive from Uncle Sam. Result: contingency layoffs, and the impasse had even more far-reaching results in its general slowing of the economy...
...American dream and the working class are still an affecting source of drama; Sam Shepard and David Mamet are proof. But Death of a Salesman, with its focus on idealism, fails to address the core concerns of an increasingly skeptical world that has already learned from Willy's lesson. Idealism is not a universal frailty like Othello's jealousy or Hamlet's indecision, but a transient societal attitude, and one that is not pervasive today. Those who do not agree will probably enjoy the show...
...finale production number revealed more second-hand material. Significant plagiarism of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming" and Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" blemished the score, previously marked only by a humorous reference to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. The orchestra seemed weary as well, though its strong rhythm section pushed onwards...