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Probing deeper into the ways of the government itself, Fromson illustrates how allegedly cooperative bodies strive to screw one another rather than serve the people. On the Hill, congressional committees sabotage hearings sponsored by other panels in a tragicomic battle for jurisdictional preeminence. Over in the executive branch, Smithers at State witholds information from Cunningham at Commerce because when Cunningham used to work at State they had clashed over who should attend an inter-agency conference sponsored by Treasury. Everyone writes memos and formulates operative alternatives, but most of the time elected officials hear only what they want to hear...
...normal. For you, you have to have $1,000 to feel normal. I am happy with $1,000, and for you it's not much. It's all relative. It is different for everybody. And the same here. What is normal for me? There are some people who strive for this armchair I am sitting in right now. I don't want it. For them it will be normal when they take my place. For me, it will be normal to go out fishing, it will be normal to drive a car. You have to be happy with what...
...into a secondary realm, only to be replaced with an equally ferocious and nearly as time-honored competition. Harvard will be jeered as the Kremlin on the Charles: Yale will be lambasted as Tory Blue. A sense of unabashed partisanship will grip two academic centers of power that usually strive for balance and objectivity...
Altman, discussing the team's strategy said yesterday. "We are not going to try to fake anybody out on the court--we are too inexperienced for that; we are just going to strive for consistency and hustle and hope we are hitting well when we come up against the top teams. She added, "I feel that each team can beat any other team in the league...
...have mistaken epic literalness, which arises from social connotation, with the notion of approximating reality. While the set should be merely suggested, minimal and stripped of reality, the props must be realistic and literal. This idea, inherent to the epic, becomes curiously reversed in Brooks' design. The sets strive for realistic representation, as in Newgate prison. Props, on the other hand, crowd the production, devoid of social significance. What, for example, is the purpose of the toilet so prominently displayed in Macheath's cell, but to elicit a weak laugh when he sits on it, saying, "One must live well...