Word: soapboxer
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...come to dominate downtown St. Paul's cityscape and retail life entirely. About 90% of the shops are on the second story, and on the streets below there are long stretches of shopless, blank walls. Calgary has gone out of its way to retain street life (roving musicians and soapbox speechmaking are encouraged), yet even there, says James McKellar, a former Calgary planning commissioner, the skywalk system "kills and sterilizes ground-level activity." For a city to lure pedestrians off the streets, whatever the reason, may be suicidal in the long run. "The retail shop on the street...
Even faced with this dilemma, this tendency towards soapbox sermonizing, Kalb's tendency is not to press harder, or put a candidate on the spot. This is largely due to the way he views his role as interviewer. The K-School professor is perhaps one of the last journalists to follow the example of Edward R. Murrow himself, emphasizing straightforward questioning while avoiding less friendly, if sometimes more effective, tactics...
...members to yell out about Northern Ireland; he readily acknowledges the colonial sins of his own motherland. And though he listens to all the hecklers, he doesn't let negative reactions deter his speechifying; Bragg seems to thrive on response of any and every sort. Ultimately, Bragg has a soapbox and he's going...
...Walk is no mere docudrama or soapbox spiel. Like Shaw, who might have written this play, Blessing evokes his characters as men and not just mouthpieces. He is greatly aided by Director Des McAnuff's understated staging, fine performances from Josef Sommer as the Soviet and Kenneth Welsh as the American, and Bill Clarke's remarkable set: a soil-capped hillside, 29 tree trunks shooting straight up into the skies and, on the far back wall, a framed picture of yet another woods, a reminder that these conversations will echo around the world...
...suspects that the old troublemaker will find new trouble spots in the political landscape; the soapbox spieler will continue his spellbinding harangues. His mind and moral sense are too restless to relax in the glow of celebrity and the promise of statuettes. But for the moment, Oliver Stone has found for himself the one plot twist he would never have put in Platoon: a happy ending to his Viet Nam nightmare...