Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Compared with Watergate, a scandal like Teapot Dome was onedimensional, a routine political corruption played out at high levels. Watergate was crucially different. It was not a grab for mon ey, but for power; that distinction, in a democracy, is everything. Moneygrubbing is unsavory. Power grabbing, the plot to steal an election (which, weirdly enough, was already safely assured), was infinitely more serious. It was an attack on the American idea. That is important because if America loses its idea, it becomes merely sordid and fallen and dangerous...
...years behind in paying his taxes. He worked hard and successfully to get federal oil-reserve lands transferred to his own department, then had no trouble finding private drillers who were ready to deal. One of the tracts Fall exchanged for private favors was a spot in Wyoming called Teapot Dome. Meanwhile, Charlie Forbes, head of the Veterans' Bureau, was traveling about the country, letting contracts for federal hospitals. He was generous with the taxpayers' money, paying inflated prices to grateful builders and then pocketing the difference. Forbes also liked to sell Government surplus goods cheap and then...
...year in space. Writes Ryumin of his shaky introduction to space travel: "Looking into the mirror I fail to recognize myself. I feel dizzy, nauseous. My movements lack coordination. I keep bumping into things, mostly with my head. Objects float away from my hands. Chaos in a teapot...
...exactly the same nightmarish state: their faces wholly burned, their eyes sockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks...their mouths were swollen, pus-covered wounds, which they could not bear to stretch enough to admit the spout of a teapot...
...provided the incidental choreography. But noble lineage does not burden this opera in the way that it does Satie's Parade, probably because it offers ample possibilities for different interpretations. The little boy (played by Mezzo-Soprano Hilda Harris) defies his mother, wrecks a pendulum clock, trashes a teapot, tears his books, rips the wallpaper off the wall, pulls the cat's tail and more...