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Offstage, the distant thunder of great events. In the background, an exotic city, sleepless, decadent and aswarm with corrupt and conniving characters. In the foreground, a displaced American male hides his latent idealism under a shady manner, and a displaced European woman hides her latent sexuality under the guise of loyalty to her husband and the outlawed political cause to which he has made a passionate and dangerous commitment...
...sensitive: they cannot abide the sound of accordion playing, and when they hear all that caterwauling, they shift uncomfortably, jolting the Richter scale to A above high C. It is no coincidence that earthquakes occur wherever huge numbers of accordion players congregate. Many of them are said to be aswarm in eastern China, where earthquakes are common, although the Red Cross has not yet been able to confirm this...
There may be something perversely cathartic about earthquakes. For some time mankind has been in the business of manufacturing its own disasters -- wars, acid rain and other pollutions, drugs, a globe aswarm with refugees. Perhaps it is a relief for a moment to be face to face with a disaster that man did not invent, a cataclysm that has at least a sort of innocence of origin in larger powers...
...Since spring the hungry hordes have infested thousands of acres in 36 counties, chewing up wheat, corn, sugar beets and soybeans. Normally, fewer than ten locusts occupy the average square yard of land; crop damage begins when the number rises to about 30. This summer some Minnesota fields are aswarm with as many as 1,200 hoppers per sq. yd. Fields in the worst areas look as if they had been struck by hailstones...
Even in a European marketplace aswarm with mergers and takeovers in anticipation of the lowering of national barriers in 1992, the B.A.T deal would be worth two-thirds the total value of the 898 European mergers and acquisitions carried out in the first half of this year. It would rank second only to last year's $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco by the LBO firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...