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There, as here, what Makavejev terms a "barter system" exists between the creative film-makers and commercial/political interests. Producers are willing to make some concessions for art's sake if the film-maker concedes a few personal, artistic points for commercialism...
...Russians wanted a straight barter deal. The company agreed to furnish them with the essentials for making Pepsi, including bottling equipment from West Germany, over a five-year period (the Russians make their own bottles and handle all distribution). In return, Pepsi got the rights to sell Russian wine and vodka in the U.S. The arrangement boils down to this: the more Soviet booze Pepsi can market in the U.S., the more Pepsi concentrate (and new equipment) the Soviets...
...Journey, Hanley's 26th book, is a particularly harrowing example of his craft. Clement Stevens, 50, is a painter with ferocious determination but no special gift. Lena, his wife in everything but name, sums up the fruits of his labor: "Two exhibitions, ten private sales, a deal of barter." Clem no longer leaves their apartment on the top floor of a crumbling London house; he drinks and stares at the reproach of blank canvas. Lena goes shopping once a week, toys dispiritedly with the notion of leaving Clem and the airless gloom that enshrouds him. Clem reads her thoughts...
...without mentioning Bukovsky. At week's end one respected Latin American newspaper. Buenos Aires' La Opinion, commented: "The exchange demonstrates that Santiago and Moscow have very similar concepts about the value of freedom and of people; both invoke elevated principles but reduce man to an object of barter...
...Back to Barter. The Lindgren case resulted from a quirk in the law (which will be changed), but it dramatized the near confiscatory nature of Sweden's tax structure, which inhibits individual initiative. Sven Stolpe, 70, one of Sweden's most distinguished writers, announced last month that he had burned the manuscripts for a new five-volume series of novels. His angry explanation: "Practically everything I earn is taxed around 100%. It is all my life's work that is being stolen." Silversmith Rey Urban, 46, moans that while his products are in demand everywhere...