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	Fear is Driving this Political Drama
		And it cannot escape notice that, although we are a much larger and far more diverse country than we were a century and a half ago, the political battle lines today geographically are drawn essentially where they were then.
		Ironically also, both sides of the divide in this political drama are driven largely by fear.
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	www.commondreams.org /views06/1027-29.htm (766 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Drama/Partly Political Broadcasts
		Broadcast in 1991, Alan Bleasdale's epic GBH does not conform to the notion of political drama that we are exploring here (in that the story's focus is not with parliamentary politics), and in truth cannot really be described as an out-and-out political drama.
		The political element of GBH is neatly encapsulated in an early exchange in which the two main characters - Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay), the leader of the local Labour council clashes with Jim Nelson (Michael Palin), a Labour supporter and teacher who refuses to join a strike that Murray has organised.
		Although political figures would form the basis for some of the series' episodes, it was via the central question of institutional corruption that Wilsher (and the series' other writers) were able to explore the kinds of issues of public accountability that dogged government throughout the 1990s.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /drama/political.htm (2427 words)

	Political theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Political theatre is drama or performing art which emphasizes a political issue or issues in its theme or plot.
		Associated with the cabaret and folk theatre, it has had an aura of being a theatre of, by, and for the people, and has flourished in oppressive governments as a means of actual underground communication and spreading of critical thought.
		Less radical versions of political theatre have joined the modern classical repertory - such as the critical dramas of Arthur Miller (The Crucible, All My Sons), which ask political questions that are inseparable from existential issues involving the behavior of human beings as social and political animals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_theater (739 words)

	Political drama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A political drama can describe a play, film or TV program that has a political component, whether reflecting the author's political opinion, or describing a politician or series of political events.
		Television series that can be classified as political drama include Yes Minister, its sequel Yes, Prime Minister, The West Wing and Commander in Chief.
		A political drama could also be presented in the form of a roman à clef.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_drama (133 words)

	Catherine Burroughs, On William Jewett's _Fatal Autonomy_ and William Simpson's _Closet Performances_ - Romantic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In this context, William Jewett's Fatal Autonomy: Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency and Michael Simpson's Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in the Dramas of Byron and Shelley are important additions to the field of Romantic theatre and drama.
		Yet the fact that "the drama's generic commitment to embodiment" is "inextricable" from the drama's "ability to draw on the political force of arguments" (249) does not ensure that political agency will be induced in spectators or readers.
		That they perform this project as "closet dramas" allows the plays to "be read as recommending" a "directly political materialization of their texts' imperatives" paradoxically by both "denying themselves a material realization" and "projecting a realization of themselves" (2).
	www.rc.umd.edu /reviews/back/jewettsimpson.html (1532 words)

	The Art of Shavian Political Drama
		It is even altogether likely that the art of political drama, in particular, reached a subtly fine state of development in the hands of Shaw, and never more so than during his final decades, in a few of his most politicized plays.
		Despite an ever increasing absorption in politics, Shaw as dramatist continued to write, not propaganda, blunt and simple, but plays, elusive and complex: he remained fundamentally, and fortunately, an artist to the end of his days.
		Beside focusing on political predicaments and the failure of society to extricate itself from them, the later plays often proceed to show, or to hint at, the catastrophes to which the failure is leading.
	www.pemmicanpress.com /articles/shavian-nickson.html (2006 words)

	CNN.com - Political drama unfolds as letter carriers fail to deliver - Aug 26, 2004
		CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- Representatives of both political parties Wednesday converged on Crawford Middle School in attempts to deliver messages -- in letter form -- about a campaign that is critical of the military record of Sen. John Kerry.
		Though neither letter wound up in the hands of its intended recipient, their bearers delivered their messages to dozens of members of the news media who served as the audience for the political theater.
		The drama began unfolding Tuesday, when former Sen. Max Cleland made plans to fly to the presidential ranch to hand-deliver a letter to President Bush asking him to condemn commercials by the group that calls itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/25/cleland.swiftboat/index.html (1405 words)

	Political Drama Triangle - nV News Forums
		The same seems true in traditional politics: the conservative game requires victims to criticise, castigate, scapegoat and punish; the liberal game requires victims to “help”, patronise, pity and redeem.
		The survival of traditional politics depends on the existence of a large pool of “victims” — ie poor people — to rescue or persecute.
		When people say “with the political will, poverty could easily be abolished” they perhaps don’t appreciate the irony.
	www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=45800 (352 words)

	Warning: NYPD Blue may affect your opinion of the President
		Their crime drama results will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Political Communication.
		Results showed that viewers of the crime dramas were more likely to use evaluations of the president's handling of crime in rating his overall performance.
		"Political scientists and communication scholars have tended to focus on the news media -- television and newspapers -- in their search for media effects that are politically consequential," McGraw said.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-10/osu-wnb100404.php (1167 words)

	ALARM! :: I should have told you that movies in the afternoon are my weakness.: Political Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		- Bonus point on the physicality of politics: I have never seen anyone write about what I know (from having worked on Jimmy Carter’s campaign in 1976) to be a fundamental reality of a national political campaign: Fatigue explains a very large amount of what goes well and poorly on a campaign.
		Politics is, in a sense, our nation’s ongoing story of itself, its narrative framed in perfect dramatic terms: two starkly opposed sides in complex, ever-shifting, high stakes conflict.
		People often grumble about the politicization of art and drama, but what Clinton and the best political performers do is turn politics into a dramatic art.
	www.alarm-alarm.com /2006/07/political-drama.html (803 words)

	All Party Conference Just a Political Drama
		In the APC Sri Lanka brings together all the Sinhala parties, postures as being the side dedicated to a peaceful resolution, and proceeds to advance a one-sided resolution within the unitary constitution, a solution which has been repeatedly rejected by the Liberation Tigers.
		In 1984, after refusing to even study the political guidelines put forward by the Tamils at the “Thimpu Talks,” which emphasized the acceptance of Tamil homeland, Tamil nationhood and the Tamil right to self-determination, as pre-requisites for any negotiated solution, the Sinhala government lead by J R Jeyawardene convened an APC.
		The Sinhala political parties during APC deliberations advanced theories to dress-up the “district councils” proposal within Sri Lanka’s Unitary constitution.
	sangam.org /taraki/articles/2006/07_20_Political_Drama.php?uid=1855 (806 words)

	Political drama ends in Mexico - The Boston Globe
		The terse statement announcing the decision brought an anticlimactic end to a crisis that battered President Vicente Fox, threatened the legitimacy of the 2006 presidential election in which Lopez Obrador is considered the favorite, and prompted a protest march of more than 1 million people through the capital 10 days ago.
		The move, however, was largely seen as a formality, after a political solution was reached last week by Fox, who accepted his attorney general's resignation and vowed to end the mayor's prosecution.
		For months, Fox denied the case was political and said it was proof that Mexico's judicial system could impartially prosecute even popular politicians.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/05/05/political_drama_ends_in_mexico?mode=PF (351 words)

	'West Wing': A stellar political drama from NBC
		Depicting a more generic presidency, the series routinely explores political issues that will undoubtedly spark some viewer mail (The Christian Right takes it on the chin a few times in the premiere.) but they are really secondary to the personal issues that embroil White House staffers.
		It’s a typical workplace drama, only the action transpires in what may be the most important office on the planet.
		In addition to the questionable appeal of a political drama, there’s also the matter of the Sorkin style.
	www.medialifemagazine.com /news1999/sept99/news2922.html (505 words)

	personal political: drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I speculated to myself that by the older age, the child themselves was asking to go to drama and girls were the ones doing the asking, not boys.
		So it looks like holiday drama workshops aren't going to be an option for much longer, as it wouldn't be appealing to Olle not to have a boy of similar age to play with in the breaks and just to 'be' with.
		D is still doing drama at nearly twelve years old and his class is mostly boys.
	susoz.typepad.com /personal_political/2006/10/drama.html (1464 words)

	Columns: Capital One: The political drama
		The plot: A small midday political rally held to criticize federal policies that make it too easy for the big Virginia-based credit card corporation to can 1,100 area workers and outsource jobs to cheaper labor overseas.
		In a classic scene of political theater, a handful of area Democrats and union leaders gathered Wednesday along Henderson Road with a hastily assembled backdrop of a dozen party faithful waving John Kerry signs.
		Emboldened, some overseas outsourcing experts recently have boasted that the political furor over outsourcing is easing.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/07/29/news_pf/Columns/Capital_One__The_poli.shtml (709 words)

	friendly printed version:Iran’s Political Drama Unfolds
		Iranian’s may have become disenchanted with the impotence of the reformist factions, but they are by all accounts disgusted with the corrupt and bankrupt policies of the conservative clerical establishment.
		’s overwhelmingly young (70 percent are under the age of 30) politically articulate, and in many cases Western-looking population.
		The fundamentalists are intent on preserving the supremacy of the clerical establishment in politics and the velayat-e-faqih (rule by Islamic jurists) that is the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s legacy.
	www.cdi.org /friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=2105&from_page=../program/document.cfm (1060 words)

	Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Israel: the political drama continues
		For the third week in a row, domestic politics is the biggest story in Israel.
		As in previous weeks, the roundup of blog entries on political developments will be followed by links to a summary of noteworthy posts on a variety of subjects.
		Imshin asks why Yachimovich was not criticized for being a “journalist with an agenda” when she decided to enter the political arena.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /globalvoices/2005/12/03/israel-the-political-drama-continues (997 words)

	'Richard II' a political drama fit for all times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The problem, of course, is that a person born to power (whether Richard II or George W. Bush) isn't necessarily a capable ruler.
		Having to gain power by seizing it might promise better results, because that necessitates political skill, but the track record of such despots, from Franco to Saddam Hussein, is disappointing.
		The dynamic of political regime change has no defter study than "Richard II." As Shakespeare writes it, Bolingbroke moves gingerly, never actually demanding the crown.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04155/326036.stm (1126 words)

	Fear is driving this political drama
		And it cannot escape notice that, although we are a much larger and far more diverse country than we were a century and a half ago, the political battle lines today geographically are drawn essentially where they were then.
		There remains, even after 150 years, a largely North-South, urban-rural divide in America, with the West Coast more politically in tune with the North, the Western hinterlands more Southern in values and perspectives, and the suburbs and exurbs conflicted as to which side of the divide to join.
		Ironically also, both sides of the divide in this political drama are driven largely by fear.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/290141_hubert27.html (753 words)

	FT.com / World / UK - Voters turned on by political drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Public interest in politics is higher than it has been at any time since the early 1990s this close to a general election, according to the latest MORI survey.
		The survey shows that 61 per cent of the electorate describe themselves as "interested" in politics, up from 53 per cent in December last year and slightly higher than the 59 per cent recorded in May 2001, when the last election campaign was in full swing.
		But the survey also shows that interest in politics is much higher among older groups, especially the over-55s, among whom there are more Conservative voters.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/2246222e-ad4b-11d9-ad92-00000e2511c8.html (533 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Political drama West Wing is axed
		The political saga has suffered a ratings slump since it was moved to Sunday nights.
		NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly said the decision to cancel it was made before actor John Spencer died of a heart attack in December.
		At its peak The West Wing - currently showing on digital channel More4 - was one of US TV's most popular series, but the much-praised drama has struggled to maintain its place in the ratings.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4638552.stm (276 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Lawamaker's death darkens Japan's political drama
		TOKYO – Political infighting over plans to privatise Japan's postal system turned nasty on Monday when some ruling party rebels said a lawmaker had killed himself due to government pressure to support the legislation.
		Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said rejection of the bills – opposed by many in his own ruling party – would be tantamount to a vote of no-confidence, a tacit threat to call an election for parliament's powerful lower house.
		Nagaoka's secretary was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying he had been upset by the fact that some weekly magazines had called him a traitor for his actions.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050801-1026-japan-politics.html (689 words)

	KRT Wire \| 09/18/2006 \| Koizumi's political drama drew cheers, boos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here we look back at some symbolic events of the political drama that the 64-year-old prime minister simultaneously starred in, and directed.
		The highlight of Koizumi's political drama may have been his showdown with LDP rebels who refused to agree to his postal privatization policy.
		Koizumi's determination to win the political battle, which some people said was overly ruthless, gained the interest and support of the public, including floating voters, and helped the LDP win a historic victory.
	www.sunherald.com /mld/sunherald/news/world/15549690.htm (684 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 2003 full of political drama and intrigue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some question her sanity for pursuing such political suicide in Utah, but lawmakers and Gov. Olene Walker are following her lead in exploring new alternatives for education funding.
		He had served plenty long as governor and will now ply his considerable political skills at a new and much different level.
		Democrat Frank Pignanelli is Salt Lake attorney, lobbyist and political adviser.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,575039519,00.html (984 words)

	Political Drama
		Politics maybe boring but when it is laced with machination, wit, debates, chaos and walkouts, it becomes an intense political drama.
		In fact, television has thrown a new breed of media-savvy politicians better known as ‘television boys’ who are far away from the heat and dust of field politics and who have made the traditional politicians uneasy.
		The biggest irony of Parliamentary politics today is that though the Left is part of the UPA it has positioned itself as a virtual opposition taking the government to task on various policy issues, leaving the NDA with little to do but sulk outside the Parliament!
	www.screenindia.com /fullstory.php?content_id=10725 (1626 words)

	STUMP: media and politics: Political Drama: Texas Redistricting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shaking things up in the media on politics, in pursuit of better coverage of the 2004 campaigns.
		The top political story in Texas today is that a panel of judges upheld a Republican redistricting plan.
		If you want to see a writer really capitalize on the dread and drama in politics, check them out.
	poynter.blogs.com /politics/2004/01/political_drama.html (482 words)

	Module GE 544: Modern German Political Drama
		The critic Theodor Adorno once said of Bertolt Brecht that he was likely to be 'preaching to the converted' in his didactic plays and that their impact was lessened as a result.
		If it is true that political drama appeals to the audience's sense of morality, what problems do you see in mixing entertainment with education?
		Steven D.Martinson, 'A multiperspectivist approach to the drama of revolution: Ernst Toller's Masse-Mensch', Orbis Literrarum 43 (1988), pp.240-59.
	www.kent.ac.uk /secl/german/ge544.html (788 words)

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