Promising to tackle what he said was an "iron curtain" between social and clinical care, he said care workers often had to choose between preparing a meal for people they were visiting or taking them to the toilet because of time constraints.
A different threat is posed by the new "misery curtain", caused by social breakdown and corrupt, incompetent governments: smuggling often with the connivance of senior officials of migrants, drugs, sex slaves and weapons, and the spread of organised crime and infectious diseases.From bad to worseA nasty outbreak of internal blood-letting occurred in Moldova in 1992.
Apparently there to provoke as well is the lopsided decor and prominent wall cracks at the Pontevedrian embassy in Act I. Are they simply visual code for a small country's penury, or do they, along with the gratuitous appearance of streetwalkers at the opening curtain, hint at social commentary as well?
To not feel expected or entitled, to act with righteousness and not hide behind the curtain of religion or social expectations and the pressures of others.
And I think the important part of winning this audience over is by putting the process of social media on TV, not behind the curtain.
But the hyphenations could also be metaphoric: lace-curtain Irish required some knowledge of social history, much as baby-boom generation does today.
Performance artists Yr Mum Ya Dad - aka Scottee and Buster - run Anti-Social at the nearby Bar Music Hall on Curtain Road on Saturdays.
Social media and constant news coverage has thrown back the curtain on everything from what they say, to what they eat.
"Peace and social justice are very costly," he said as the 8 p.m. curtain neared.
The Social Democratic government fell the same month as the show's curtain rose, and by July, Germany was being ruled by decree.
