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...color and life to the show. As an interesting quirk, Patricia Conolly's initially strained performance improves as her character's drug abuse increases. Her greatest moment comes during the play's final monologue, leaving the audience with a disturbing eeriness at curtain-fall. Sue-Anne Morrow as the servant Cathleen is one welcome release from the monotony and moroseness of the other characters because she moves excitedly around the stage...

Author: By Brady S. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Long Day's Journey Plagued by Unrelenting Tension | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

Whether it was the Food and Drug Administration, or the Occupation Safety and Health Administration, bureaucrats either went along with the demolition or found other jobs. Any civil servant of conscience had to be driven out long ago. The Competitiveness Council, first headed by George Bush and now by Dan Quayle, raised this corruption to new heights, by gutting laws and regulations at the behest of campaign contributors...

Author: By Kenneth R. Walker, | Title: Government Reform: Fire Them All | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...working harder and making less"--4 times ."Hunky-dory"--Only once ."Character"--5 times, ."Tax"--18 times ."Tax and spend"--3 times, for a total of 7 ."Trust"--3 times ."Experience"--Twice, but no `Who do you trust' ."90/90 hind-sight"--Once ."Budget deficit"--Five times ."Gridlock"--Twice ."Servant of the people"--Twice, for a total of four times ."Electronic town hall"--Only once ."The White House is a bully pulpit"--Only once, for a grand total of four times ."It's pretty simple"--Twice ."Froot-Loopy"--Once, mercifully A Few of our Favorite Quotes ."It's hard to outspend...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: THE FINAL SCORECARD | 10/20/1992 | See Source »

...fact, as historian Daniel J. Boorstin recounted in The Discoverers, 500 years earlier a civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China Missed Its Big Chance | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...days in office that begins Nov. 4--three months before he would take office. . Obvious loss of voice . Doesn't attempt even one joke. Stock Phrases . "We are not coming apart at the seams..."--Four times . Can sleep at night, because we aren't afraid of nuclear war--Twice . "Servant of the people"--Twice . "Chips" (potato and computer)--Four times . "The White House is a bully pulpit"--Twice . The word "change"--13 times . Refers to Hillary--Twice Humor Attempts . Talks about cocaine--rubs nose . Makes joke about stock market reaction to possible Clinton win--swooping hand motion emphasizes point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scorecard | 10/13/1992 | See Source »

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