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Thursday will be the first day of BE LIVE Cambridge, billed as "a combination of talk radio, electronic soapbox and town meeting," from 2 to 5 p.m., followed at 7:30 p.m. by The Fringe Voice...
...other times, Hwang forgets the cardinal rule and lets his characters tell rather than show; Randall spells out, "This change in appearance has somehow changed the inner man." In impeding the otherwise rich evolution of plot and character with soapbox monologues, Face Value underestimates its audience. Hopefully, much of the speechifying will be cut as Face Value continues its pre-Broadway engagement at the Colonial Theatre, so that nothing detracts from the attention the plot and characters deserve...
Under Ronald Reagan, a conservative who had earlier inveighed against federal red ink from any soapbox he could find, the U.S. went from being the world's largest creditor nation to being the world's largest debtor. When Reagan took office, the budget deficit was about $74 billion, and the national debt (i.e., the sum of all previous deficits) was nearly $1 trillion. In three years the deficit had soared to $200 billion; and when George Bush steps down, he will leave behind a projected fiscal 1993 deficit of about $340 billion. Today interest on the debt consumes...
...bombardment. We have posters, filers, we go down at mealtimes," Doyle said. "It means standing on top of a soapbox every chance...
...collar workers usually escape recessions. In 1981-82, for example, the white-collar unemployment rate increased one-sixth as much as the blue-collar rate. This time it has increased fully half as much. The factory worker has the ballot box, but he has less access to the national soapbox than do the manager and the office worker, the M.B.A. and the journalist now on the street looking for work. In part, then, this recession has been hyped for the same reason plane crashes get far more ink than bus accidents: it hits a lot closer to home...