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...impending killer winter were too serious a matter to permit a trifling play of mere imagination. I was once trapped for three congealed hours (he actually locked the door) in the office of the director of the Port of Duluth, Minn., as he explained to me (as 'twere Toronto's utility rates) the hateful, intricate bureaucratic problems of his work. I escaped by simulating cardiac arrest...
...recession began last year, George Bush's attitude about it was rather like Macbeth's unpleasant regard for murdering King Duncan: " 'Twere well it were done quickly." That is, better to get it over with long before the election. Until lately, the Administration felt confident that by 1992 the recovery would be in full swing. But in recent weeks the President has twice convened special sessions of his Economic Policy Council. Reason: although Bush's advisers regularly declare the recession over, polls show that the vast majority of Americans don't buy it. The President was moved to remark last...
...hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature," is written in heavily ornamented lettering above the stage in the Boston University Theatre. The Huntington Theatre Company seems to have taken this phrase to heart...
...comes together, somewhere around "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," the show is bordering on high comedy. And I guess maybe a case could be made for occasional tediousness as authenticity: "a very excellent piece of work," the lone spectator in the original Taming of the Shrew remarks halfway through, "would 'twere over...
...essential part of our appeal." And in a closed meeting with Tory backbenchers, the Prime Minister zestfully echoed another knife-wielding Mac known for his ruthless ambition. Defending the suddenness of his massacre, Macmillan said with Macbeth: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly...