Decisions were deferred on everything from where to hold the media party kicking off the convention week of Aug. 14 to how to design an official logo for posters and banners.
Well, 16 years have passed, I've now seen the play in other incarnations (including its mightily disappointing New York debut in 1995), and here is "Arcadia" newly conceived at the Duke of York's Theatre, like the realization of a dream deferred in which everything we hope for from the theater is in one three-hour experience exhilaratingly made flesh.
Arafat either would say he needed to think about it or, especially on Jerusalem, he would say he could not accept the idea, even when the idea was deferring Jerusalem and agreeing on everything else".
My friends are all broke, say "whatever" too much, still live in Converses and constant hangovers, still yell at their parents on the phone and two seconds later ask for money and possibly a place to crash, are still deferring college loans and say everything is the new something-else, including the 30s, which are the new 20s.
Embracing wars, deferring to generals, or giving the Pentagon everything it wants is the opposite of leadership.
It was quite enlightening as an actress, being in a part where you are the centre of the play and everything revolves around you – being that young prince with everyone deferring to you.
President Obama defers to Congress on everything except war.
Everything from deferred compensation to capital gains to income kept in offshore banks are taxed at lower rates than the 35percentt most people pay, not to mention the many loopholes that enable corporations to save on business taxes.
We welcome the fact that they are doing everything they can to avoid politicising the Charter Review process, and the decision about future funding, by deferring that work until after the general election.
