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...characters are deceptively goofy. There’s the fly-infested beggar, the hunchbacked waiter, the snobbish French man, and the disproportionately small, white-haired nun nodding off at the next table. The scene is also deceptively simple: one bench in a French cafe and the outside world as reflected by the mirror behind it. But the snob has no money, the beggar is just as much a giver as he is a taker, and the old lady is not as saintly as she at first may seem...
...we’d never have heard of her—an embarrassing sign that Rudolf’s isn’t so elementary a lesson as the age of his target audience might suggest. If Susan Boyle has taught us anything, it’s that the beggar-to-princess narrative hasn?...
...Chorus of Disapproval (1983) After the death of his wife, a man joins an amateur theater company performing The Beggar's Opera, and unwittingly turns everyone's life upside down. A big play (unusually long for Ayckbourn) with a large cast, but one of his most entertaining - though you couldn't tell it from the botched 1988 movie version starring Anthony Hopkins...
...Brother Blue, David Neiman built a career out of street performing after graduating from Brown University in 1981 with a joint degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics. Nieman, who was classically trained in guitar, also minored in Music. Considering Neiman’s resume, he is far from a beggar looking for a quick buck. When asked why he started performing, Neiman responds, “I saw someone playing the dulcimer on the Boston Commons while I was in school. It was really the instrument that I fell in love with.”In 1985, the Cambridge resident...
...almost 80 years later, and possibly about to make the same mistake. Although there have been no headline-grabbing Smoot acts to call the world's attention to the threat, there is mounting evidence that, once again, government and business leaders are inching toward the type of beggar-thy-neighbor policies of the Great Depression. "Particularly, I am concerned about the rising dangers of protectionism," World Bank president Robert Zoellick recently said in Singapore. "This financial and economic and unemployment problem is serious enough," he later added. "If we start to trigger a round of protectionism...