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...amiably hard-nosed international businessman describes how he faced down a moralizing junior, then recalls that his wife asked, "Did you have to do your Bugsy Siegel routine?" The wife, a no-longer-loyal corporate helpmeet, recounts warning other corporate wives of what they may face on duty abroad -- a child murdered in a random robbery, a marriage ruined by loneliness, a spouse corrupted by the demands of the bottom line. The husband, alone and adrift in a forced retirement brought on by his wife's untimely candor, muses on what he lost and why he ever wanted...
...detached distance from the underprivileged terrain regarded as a "market." With these speeches Jon Robin Baitz, 31, vaults into the top rank of U.S. dramatists. He first came into view in 1987 with The Film Society, set in South Africa, where he spent his youth as an American businessman's son. The Substance of Fire pitted a father against his children for control of a New York City publishing firm. The End of the Day mocked the morality of success in tradition-bound London and parvenu Los Angeles. The new work, drawing on themes from its predecessors, depicts rootless, placeless...
...awareness of the clash between cash and conscience is hardly novel; ! and his main target, infant formula, has been pilloried for more than a decade. What makes Three Hotels so memorable, in an impeccable production, is Baitz's ability to render people specific and real. He savors the businessman's skill at infighting and pride in the art of firing failed subordinates even as the character edges toward a moral quandary. He evokes the wife's protectiveness and pragmatic respect toward her husband's labor even as she lashes out to end it. The play implies in each partner...
...tiny could cause troubles so huge. DON'T DRINK THE WATER, shouted the city's headlines, as thousands of area residents, including the mayor's wife and infant son, contracted a flulike illness that has emptied drugstores of antidiarrhea medications and sent hundreds to hospital emergency rooms. One businessman actually brought water back from Chicago, some 90 miles away. Schools shut off drinking fountains; the Culligan man showed up outside a local TV station to distribute distilled water; and a line formed outside the old Pryor Avenue Iron well, one of the city's few sources of artesian water...
...VIEWS ARE ECHOED BY VLADImir Ivanyushkin, a Moscow businessman. Says he: "If the Westerners keep giving us aid or credits, it's stupid. No matter what kind of government we have, communist, fascist or democratic, it's still going to be a Russian government, which means that all that aid will simply go down the drain, and nobody will ever find where it ends...