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...such acclaimed plays as The Birthday Party (1958), The Caretaker (1960), The Homecoming (1966), Old Times (1971), No Man's Land (1975) and Betrayal (1971), Pinter radically altered and energized the traditional dynamic of the stage. It was no longer simply the place where people spoke; it was where not speaking could be far more suggestive, dangerous, theatrical, eloquent. Like Beckett, he renounced the flossy rhetoric of such postwar playwrights as Christopher Fry and Jean Anouilh for a back-to-basics starkness - a two-men-on-a-stage simplicity that Aeschylus would have admired. In its citation, the Swedish Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

Vilsack's agricultural policies are not his only connections to the president-elect. Obama’s Chief Strategist David Axelrod also advised Vilsack during his Iowa gubernatorial campaign, and Vilsack’s wife, then-Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, spoke during the 2004 Democratic National Convention on the same night as Obama...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Selects IOP Fellow as Secretary of Agriculture | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

Stocks are down, Treasuries are up, and the economy is in a funk. To get a fix on what's ahead, TIME talked to two top strategists at Merrill Lynch: Richard Bernstein, who plots U.S. investment strategy, and Michael Hartnett on international. Both spoke with TIME contributing editor John Curran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Merrill Lynch Strategists on the '09 Outlook for Stocks | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...This action will help to preserve many jobs," said a visibly more relaxed Rik Wagoner as he spoke of Friday morning's announcement of aid for the automakers. It's been a tense week, and not just for Detroit's CEOs. In recent days employees of the Big Three in Detroit have been going about their jobs as a life and death debate waged in Washington. Just this week, executives from General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor were offering reporters sneak previews of vehicles due out in 2009 and 2010 despite huge uncertainty surrounding their future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reaction in Detroit: A Sigh of Relief | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

With state and U.S. flags behind him, Blagojevich appeared at the podium alone, rarely looking down as he addressed the media and spoke into the cameras, including a dramatic recitation of lines from a Rudyard Kipling poem: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you and make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, don't give way to hating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Blago's Defiance, Echoes of an Idol, Richard Nixon | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

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