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...Mamet fans, Speed-the-Plow will recall many of the pleasures of Glengarry. Both center on salesmen who have no skill except persuasion, no talent but for heightened, theatrical speech and naked yet manipulative emotional outbursts. Although Mamet is highly literary -- he reads widely, and the script for Speed-the-Plow has an epigraph from Thackeray's Pendennis -- few of his witticisms translate well into print, because he does not write rounded, formal speeches. The movie men in Speed-the-Plow, much like the thugs in American Buffalo (1975), the actors in A Life in the Theater...
...previous volumes and introduces 27 new works. Included among these is On Freedom's Ground, a cantata written in collaboration with Composer William Schuman that was performed in New York City in 1986 to mark the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday. That a serious poet would contribute his skill to a national celebration, throwing well-chosen words into the melee of fireworks, bumper stickers and beer, may seem surprising. Yet Wilbur's poetry has never drawn a sharp distinction between public and private occasions. The job of the poet, his work implies, is to be a messenger between outer...
...strong common bond is love of and skill in negotiating. A species of political bargaining has already begun, tentatively, in public. Some of this is thematic: Dukakis, for instance, has begun to match Jackson's emphasis on combatting the drug menace. Last week, with a large publicity flourish, Dukakis signed a bill establishing the first statewide health insurance plan. The fact that Jackson also emphasizes health care gives them another patch of common ground, although they have differing views...
Booth, who teaches a section of an introductory photography course here, says he "became involved with [motorcycles] in the 1950s, when the only ones around were European. It was not a popular pastime. To ride one you had to have a certain amount of athletic ability and mechanical skill...
...never been much of a team player. As director of the White House Office of Management and Budget in 1981, he was taken "to the woodshed" by the President for publicly criticizing Reaganomics. Stockman admitted that he cooked the figures in the budgets he sent to Congress; his skill with numbers landed him a six-figure job as a managing director at Salomon Brothers, a Wall Street investment house...