Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Support in Congress is broad but shallow, while opposition from the bureaucracy is focused and intense. Congressional committees have made some major changes in the bill, which is expected to reach the House floor late this week. Republicans who backed the original proposal are now offended by a provision making it easier for federal employees, who are estimated to be mostly Democrats, to engage in political activity. The White House is confident that It can live with some of the changes and persuade the full House to modify others. If victory is not exactly in sight, it is also...
...unit set designed by John Wright Stevens is a curtained belvedere that does not lend itself well to the different locations called for in the play. Most of the Brandeis stage is unused, since the set is placed so far forward. The playing area is unduly shallow and so steeply raked that it must be difficult to move about on. The cast must, to use Macbeth's words, feel "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd." Perhaps the Lake Forest stage is unusually small; but if so, some adjustment ought to have been made here by pushing the set back...
...trying to suppress the midnight carousers by saying, "Are you mad? Or what are you?," he can make the word what sound perfectly awful-similarly, in a later scene, when he brands them "shallow things." In the Letter Scene, Malvolio reads the sentence, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve." I must confess that I always enjoy seeing the actor foolishly turn around (as Rabb does), although in Shakespeare's day the word revolve meant simply consider, and had not yet taken on the modern meaning of rotate...
...anyone likes this insipid tale of a hip New York couple that hits the skids for no apparent reason. Jill Clayburgh is appealing but not too good as the put-upon protagonist who is suddenly forced to restructure her shattered life. All in all, An Unmarried Woman presents a shallow and almost unbelievably simplistic view of the problems of divorce. The only saving grace is a wonderful bit by Alan Bates as the new lover. If you have to see it, go for the last half--that's when Bates traipses...
...compromise appears likely. The Administration has given up trying to beat Steiger, and is instead seeking to keep shallow any cut in capital-gains taxes. The hottest prospect is a reduction in the maximum rate to 35%. Meanwhile, the whole episode has shown politicians once again how deeply Americans have come to resent taxes. Says Richard Rahn, executive director of the American Council for Capital Formation, a lobbying group for lowering capital-gains rates: "Support for Steiger is coming not from the fat cats but from middle-income people yelling 'I want a chance to make...