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...should. His is a purely technical vision. he has never had any conception of the day-to-day impact of his policies on people--on their jobs, their budgets, their emotions. Operating at such a level of abstraction--viewing himself solely as a mechanic--Stockman could swallow his doubts about the equity and efficacy of the Reagan plan and press on in search of the right set of numbers. He simply played an intellectual game with the economy, and hence with millions of people's lives...
...letting the situations and the lines do the work. This tendency results in several nearly inaudible scenes, like those ones between Sebastian (Jeremy Black) and his follower Antonio--but often it works to the play's advantage, making the occasional broad comedy doubly comic. Rogal as Toby Belch may swallow a line or two, but his grimaces in otherwise underplayed scenes spark hilarity, and one outraged cry of "Madam!" to a thoroughly confused Olivia is the show's funniest moment...
...moderate income people...Without better data, it is impossible to insist on rent control and condo controls in exactly their current forms." Saying that to a room full of tenant activists was not wise; better for a fundamentalist preacher to tell his flock that the whale didn't really swallow Jonah. Enacting rent control in 1970 was a tremendous struggle; maintaining it since then has been just as hard. And tenants have to look no farther than Somerville--where rents doubled and tripled when rent control was wiped off the books 18 months ago--to realize how important the program...
...Steve Swallow, Randy Roos, Mick Goodrick and June Sarto--Ryles Upstairs...
...however, lots of ferns, rotting logs, pine trees, deciduous trees, and horse-leavings. Once I emerged from the woods to find a familiar red-and-white shuttle bus at the entrance, bearing Biology students out for a serious day's work. But the Forest is big enough to swallow up any crowd; certainly it is among the most peaceable corners of this University...