Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After New York's World Trade Center is rocked by a thundering explosion, police round up a string of Arab immigrants as suspects, including an Egyptian radical who was admitted to the U.S. by mistake. Off the shore of New York's Long Island, a rusty tramp steamer called the Golden Venture runs aground, disgorging nearly 300 frightened Chinese trying to enter the country illegally; 10 die. Newly elected President Bill Clinton, reneging on a campaign promise, denies entry to Haitian boat people, then is blindsided by hostile public reaction when his first two choices for Attorney General turn...
...there it languished, obscurely, until the advent of compact-disc technology, which permitted Bryars to fashion a version twice as long -- and at least four times as ambitious. Beginning with a fade-in of the tramp's a cappella singing, it slowly builds and swells, with new instruments constantly added to a basic string quintet. Cellos and basses come and go; horns, trombones and contrabassoons add color; a full string orchestra emerges, along with a vocal choir. Finally, pop singer Tom Waits joins in, his raspy, passionate baritone contrasting with the old man's reedy tenor. Its long journey finished...
...people died when a tramp freighter smuggling Chinese immigrants into the U.S. went aground just off New York City. After hundreds of the would-be immigrants jumped overboard into chill waters in an attempt to swim ashore, about 285 were treated and released into the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which will decide whether the immigrants should be returned to China. Police said a Chinese gang operating in lower Manhattan organized the nightmarish 17,000-mile voyage of the Golden Venture with the intention of collecting a fee of around $30,000 a head...
...heart, Anna Christie is about parents and children. O'Neill's actor father James died a few months before the play was written, and in it you can see Eugene -- the tramp poet in a fog, the son who ran away to sea -- raging at a dying generation's prejudices before reconciling himself to the people who hold them. In a subtler way, Richardson has donned the mantle of her incandescent mother, Vanessa Redgrave. By evening's end, the young star has settled onto the old O'Neill sofa. Why, they might have been made for each other...
...Clinton appointments process has sprung more leaks than a tramp freighter flying a flag of convenience. Almost every day there has been another name in the news linked to a likely job, such as former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The first question at Clinton's Thursday press conference was not about his economic team but whether General Colin Powell was in contention, as rumored, for Secretary of State. Sure, there have been a few wrong calls -- Carol Browner, and not former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, was named to head the Environmental Protection...