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Though Cornuelle and her cast understand the desolation that underlies Beckett's play, they shun many of the more light-hearted elements of this tragicomedy. Beckett's world consists of both circus clowns and downtrodden poets. The director doesn't give her performers enough guidance in the "baggy pants" aspect of Godot, leaving them to contemplate somberly the meaninglessness of their lives...
...developing countries tend to shun loans from the IMF because of the stringent repayment and budget-cutting conditions that come along with the money. Nor does the fund seem prepared to ease back on its tough lending conditions. Says one official flatly: "IMF loans are usually harsh but essential to get a country that borrows them out of the economic mess that it is in. While I think that there will be tremendous pressure on the fund to ease off a bit, doing so would clearly be wrong...
...addition, countries looking for a more human approach will shun the HIID. If Harberger comes, he will give advice that will contribute to brutal political repression and to economic injustice. Harvard would make a worthier and wise decision if it chose someone who would encourage a ferment of ideas, and someone with the breadth of imagination to envision an approach that will help put an end to the suffering and starvation...
...Pacific and four hours adrift at sea before being rescued by a submarine crew. Three air medals and the DFC. Phi Beta Kappa at Yale. Creator of an independent off shore oil drilling firm in Texas. A millionaire at 41. Twice elected to Congress from Houston. Nor does he shun name-dropping. "The last time I saw Mao," he will inject into an answer about world affairs, or "I've been to the Khyber Pass...
...Edwardians, photography was still a minor art. Journalistic celebrity, except for actors and the high-society whores delicately known as "les grandes horizontals," was something to shun at all costs. It was the portrait that condensed fame and status, and to do so it needed to be painted by one of the lions of the medium, those astonishingly facile and brisk painters who plied their trade in the upper reaches of a society through which they moved on almost equal terms with their clients-Paul-César Helleu, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Anders Zorn. In England and America...