Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MANCHESTER, N.H.--With relatively little mention of the standard Republican rhetoric of social and cultural degradation, a diverse and feisty collection of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination instead focused on the proper role of government in America at last night's GOP debate in New Hampshire...
...issues ranging from the Internet to Social Security, candidates argued that the government served the public best when it governed them the least...
...Forbes, trumpeting his own plan to privatize social security by giving Americans an option to invest their retirement accounts, criticized Bush for saying he would consider raising the age required to claim Social Security benefits...
...installation art and Isamu Noguchi's minimalist sets for the New York City Ballet. Add to that the light design of John Ambrosone, for whom no slant of light or subtlety of shading is unattainable, and the stoic formalism of Catherine Zuber's costumes, which make Chekov's rural social philosophers seem as though they could just melt into the landscape, and you have a two-hour-long painting on the stage. Yeremin's staging makes every use of this artistic ingenuity. His actors move more like dancers than farmers. Yeremin has a brilliant sense of space, horizontal and vertical...
...therein lies the problem of the A.R.T'.s Ivanov. Yeremin may want his actors to fade like tiny points of light into the world around them, but Chekov's text is meant to act as a magnifying glass, to make the world of social conventions and thinly veiled subtexts appear larger than life. Chekov is the great playwright of the strained relationships humans have with themselves and with one another; looking in Chekov for the larger metaphysical themes of man in landscape that Yeremin's visuals try to evoke is a lost cause. Yes, Ivanov is about loneliness and isolation...