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More fluid dialogue and sharper editing would have greatly aided this production, as would the introduction of transitional scenes to add coherence. We should not be left in darkness for several minutes while the actors struggle to reposition furniture for the next scene. And the dialogue Burton gives her Japanese characters sounds fake when translated into idiomatic English...
...vote. "The President's negotiating team insisted on protecting the superrich," said Obey. "This agreement simply continues the march that was started in 1981 when budget and tax changes tripled America's deficits and dropped the word fairness from the vocabulary of the Federal Government." The Obey faction proposed sharper cuts in defense spending and higher income tax rates for those with incomes over...
That debate, in turn, was a sort of warmup for what is likely to be an even sharper dispute at this week's seven-nation Western economic summit in Houston. That meeting will reunite Bush, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Kohl and Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada and Giulio Andreotti of Italy, plus Toshiki Kaifu of non-NATO Japan...
...showdown on the civil rights bill demonstrates, Mandela's presence in the U.S. throws a sharper light on domestic racial matters. At the first stop on his itinerary, the mostly black Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, the crowd needed little encouragement to draw comparisons between the problems of South African blacks and their own dilemmas. As he spoke about the inadequacy of schools for blacks in South Africa, some of his listeners shouted back, "Same here!" When he went on to complain that in South Africa whites control the education of blacks, others in the crowd picked...
Armed with a healthy ego, a sharp mind and sharper tongue, the 63-year-old Texan has rarely if ever been known to be diplomatic. But he doesn't seem worried about transferring his pugnacious style from academe to politics. "I'm an outsider to political office but experienced in making change," he said in announcing his candidacy last month. Silber is convinced that an outsider is exactly what Massachusetts voters want, and a recent poll offers some support for his theory...