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From left, former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, sen. elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, sen. Bernie sanders of Vermont, former vice president Joe Biden, former south Bend,
Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg and sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Doubling down — and going bust — in Vegas
At Nevada debate, Elizabeth Warren goes all-in against the billionaire
Warren as “the senator next to me.” I t’s a
common debate tactic: elevate your own
stature by refusing to acknowledge your
opponent’s name. But Warren wasn’t
having it.
“elizabeth,” s he interjected, in a voice
dripping with disdain.
Elizabeth.
The message in this one word was, you
obviously know my name, you bipedal
checking account.
or perhaps, more practically, the
message was to the rest of us: I exist.
Twenty-four hours prior, #WheresWarren
trended online in response to an nBC/Wall
street Journal poll that opted not to include
her in its analysis of head-to-head
matchups with President Trump. The
polling firm’s eventual explanation — “Amy
Klobuchar was selected as the fifth
candidate. We have tested Warren earlier”
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elizabeth Warren was
alternately the professor in
chief, the captain of knife-
sharpening a nd the bruising
brawler rolling up her blazer
sleeves to hurl folding chairs
into the wrestling ring of
Wednesday’s Democratic
debate.
she seized the floor early by pointing out
that newcomer Mike Bloomberg had called
women “fat broads and horse-faced
lesbians.” Later, she cornered the former
new York mayor by challenging him to
release employees who had claimed sexual
harassment from their nondisclosure
agreements.
There were plenty of big Warren
moments, so in the middle of all the
fireworks, it was easy to miss a sparkler:
While discussing taxes and his own
wealth, Bloomberg casually referred to
Monica
Hesse
BY PETER MARKS
The shakespeare Theatre
Company makes a full-throated
claim to an exciting new era with
its splendidly realized revival of
“The Amen Corner,” James Bald-
win’s rarely produced yarn of a
gospel preacher whose personal
and ecclesiastical walls come a-
tumblin’ down.
sidney Harman Hall has been
transformed by director Whitney
White and her designers into the
Harlem storefront tabernacle
from which sister Margaret Alex-
ander — in the person of a rivet-
ing Mia ellis — guides her restive
flock. she’s a strong-willed and
prideful pastor, and we know
from Proverbs 16:18 how pride is
likely to goeth.
With a choir of powerhouse
singers adding joyful noise, sister
Margaret’s fall is set in motion by
the preacher’s blindness to her
own weaknesses and a venomous
congregation’s vengeful schemes.
A passel of exemplary perfor-
mances attends this Learlike
stripping away o f titles, privileges
and presumptions, among them:
Harriett D. Foy as Margaret’s
protective sister, odessa; Deidra
LaWan starnes and Phil McGlas-
ton as the vindictive Boxers;
Chiké Johnson as Margaret’s es-
tranged husband, Luke; and,
most f erociously, e. Faye Butler in
a sensational turn as sister
Moore, a force of volatile piety
with whom you contend at your
peril.
It’s a play of cantankerous
characters and operatic emo-
tions, the sort of melodrama in
which worshipers sink to their
knees in paroxysms of devotion
and families spill out their griev-
ances in arias of frustration and
anguish. What fun there can be in
holding nothing back! In Marga-
ret’s church and in these thrilling
voices — Jade Jones, nova Y.
Payton and Lauryn simone
among the standouts — releasing
oneself from worldly woe is taken
to blood-sport extremes. no won-
der the aptly named set designer
Daniel soule places the proceed-
ings in a monumental cityscape
of brick, with a sanctuary open to
the sky: These parishioners have
long ago raised the roof all the
way up to heaven.
Baldwin wrote “The Amen
Corner” i n the early 1950s, and it
was first produced at Howard
University. so shakespeare The-
atre’s m ounting is indeed a home-
coming. And what warm and
lavish respect the company pays
to the writer and his work. The
refreshing of the organization’s
mission, under its new artistic
director, simon Godwin, also
seems to be a feature of this
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theater review
Taking a sharp right at ‘ Amen Corner’
name of the Fourth Reich.
on the one hand, “Hunters”
seems (and plays) like pulp fan-
tasy. on that pesky other hand,
here in 2020, there have been
see TV ReVIeW on C4
network of thousands of nazis,
old and young, have infiltrated
the halls of power and are biding
their time while their female
Fuhrer-surrogate (Lena olin)
plans a terrorist attack in the
BY HANK STUEVER
Amazon Prime’s intriguing
but often contorted thriller se-
ries “Hunters” (streaming Fri-
day) stars Al Pacino as the leader
of a colorful yet clandestine band
of mostly Jewish mercenaries
who hunt and kill nazis. It’s a
fast, frenetic show that’s all over
the place — emotionally, violent-
ly and conspiratorially. Its darkly
humorous bent competes with
its righteous sincerity.
The nazis seen here, in 1977
America, are also all over the
place, where you least expect
them (and also where you do).
From the show’s opening scene
— in which a Carter administra-
tion policy adviser (Dylan Baker)
executes his family and neigh-
bors at a backyard picnic in
Chevy Chase rather t han have h is
nazi past exposed — viewers
begin to understand that a vast
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‘Hunters’ struggles to hit its target
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In “Hunters,” Al Pacino, left, with L ogan Lerman, plays a
Holocaust survivor who is a mercenary tracking down Nazis.
BY ROBIN GIVHAN
Deep into the two-hour nevada Demo-
cratic debate, co-moderator Chuck To dd of
nBC asked former new York mayor Mike
Bloomberg if he should have made so much
money that it allowed him to become a
billionaire many times over. Bloomberg
looked at Todd with an expression that was
a combination of boredom and annoyance
before replying, “Yes, I worked
hard.”
What else would he say?
Bloomberg’s biggest sales pitch
as a 2020 p residential candidate is that he is
a billionaire. He made that clear during the
debate. He is a billionaire who is giving
away much of his money through his
philanthropy. He is a billionaire spending
his money to save democracy for the
populace, but especially f or his c hildren. He
is a billionaire who doesn’t need to wave h is
hand frantically and beg for a few seconds
of speaking time because he can just go buy
as many national advertisements as he likes
and speak without interruption. He is a
billionaire who d oesn’t h ave to scream until
he is red in the face because he doesn’t n eed,
need, need the presidency because... why?
Because he is a billionaire and his life is
good.
Wednesday night’s debate was the first
that included Bloomberg. What did
the billionaire look like for his
debut? He t ook his place stage right
wearing his nicely tailored dark
suit and his Democratic blue tie and his
starched shirt. everything fit well but
nothing was aggressively tailored. nothing
was exaggerated. Bloomberg’s clothes did
not emphasize his wealth, but they didn’t
deny it either — which is how t he confident-
ly wealthy dress.
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Mike Bloomberg has all the money in the world, but we’re still not sold
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