Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, Prascak maintains Cocteau's scene structure and characters. His major switch is to replace a talking horse with a small Oscar the Grouch figure, the same Muppet that starred in The Dream Play. This horse-turned-Muppet opens the play with cryptic messages that provide Orpheus with poetic inspiration. It is helpful to keep in mind that this--like much of what else is odd in the production--is weird thanks to Cocteau, not Prascak...
...telephone excise tax, a shrinking of tax benefits for corporate takeovers, and limits on the amounts of home loans that are eligible for interest deductions ($1 million on mortgages and $100,000 for home-equity loans). "Treacherous!" exclaimed Texas Republican Richard Armey. "This is a bait-and-switch tactic. They baited the President into a summit and then switched on him." The Democrats in fact are likely to use this package of tax increases as a lever to pry concessions out of the White House at the domestic summit. Though Reagan has withdrawn his frequent pledges to veto anything resembling...
...Washington summit. Unless the U.S. was willing to talk about ways to limit Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative program, he would prefer to pass up Thanksgiving at the ranch. Barely a year after he had done much the same in Reykjavik, Gorbachev pulled off a bait-and-switch scheme at Reagan's expense, luring him into high- level, high-visibility diplomacy only to shock and infuriate the Administration at the last minute by holding summitry hostage to American concessions on Star Wars...
Although the Yankees were 91-54 under him, Steinbrenner decided to make switch to Piniella...
Last year, PBS had originally planned to televise. The Game. But since neither Harvard nor Yale was in contention for the Ivy crown, PBS decided to switch its telecast to the Cornell-Pennsylvania showdown, which Penn won to earn the league title...