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Speciale’s actors doubled as writers, with everyone contributing his share to the play’s development...
...Have you not seen pictures of their rallies?” a friend back home asked me. I have; they’re absurd. Like any gathering of the politically discontent, the movement has its share of loonies, guys in tar-and-feather just as happy smearing Obama as handing out Oswald conspiracy pamphlets. But the Tea Party still isn’t just some barmy half-brother of the GOP. Genuine Tea Partiers find much to blame with both major parties; beneath the noise, there’s a serious desire to re-examine the nation?...
...without results, there will be a similar reaction—and as the movement this time isn’t quite so literary, there’s no guarantee it will behave quite so well. That’s what the Tea Partiers and the Angry Young Men really share: the desire for some display of humility from a government all too willing to collect our money, and not willing enough to explain just why we should let it run things...
...Reform Party, founded by Perot to keep his crusade alive, has virtually no appeal to the Tea Party crowd. There is a lesson in that. Grass-roots uprisings come and go, and protest candidates rise and fall. In the flush of righteous battle, people focus on the beliefs they share and tolerate points of difference. Eventually, though, the battle ends, the smoke clears, and even when the movement has some success, its troops tend to go their separate ways. After Perot retired from politics, his movement fell to pieces; Patrick Buchanan carried the Reform Party's banner in one election...
...found it more honest - and none the worse, creatively - if Ms. Hegemann would have asked Airen for permission to so excessively use the stories," says Debora Weber-Wulff, a media professor and plagiarism expert at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Weber-Wulff believes that Hegemann's generation shares the same laissez-faire attitude toward copying and pasting that comes from growing up in the Internet age. "Digital information is infinitely copyable," Weber-Wulff says. But she adds that questions remain over just how much of a person's creative work can be copied and how that person...