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Liza Dalby's Geisha does much to correct the misimpressions, and in the process reseals an amusing, fascinating world that preserves the past by holding banquets and entertaining modern Japanese businessmen. Dalby's book is written with a sympathy and understanding for the geisha world that brings these women to life. There are flaws in Dalby's elegantly written book, for it too often concentrates on the form of Geisha life rather than the actual substance...
...reception at 4 p.m., with punch and snacks, followed by a dinner in the cafeteria, followed by a question-and-answer session at 7 p.m. The big Lincoln growled round spiny hills whose flanks were flecked with dead old cars, over swollen brown rivers, through towns where businessmen affect three-piece suits the color of certain gaudy birds-the passengers being made tardier by the minute...
After tasting victory in the 1982 elections, many Brazilians decided that the right time was now. By late last year the most prominent opposition Congressmen began to organize and lobby for passage of a constitutional amendment favoring direct presidential elections in November this year. Joining forces with students, businessmen, feminist organizations and labor unions, they began to stage mass demonstrations. Since January, hundreds of thousands of people have turned out in the cities of Curitiba, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. Even the world's best-known Brazilian, Soccer Star Pelé, has declared his support by dedicating...
...largely is terms of money--the national reputation of the Dallas Cowboys. "America's Team," helped raise their price to $70 million in a recent sale. The NFL, which has a purchaser must own at least 51% of the team a stock, watched silently s a consortium of local businessmen bought the team, $70 million is a lot of money, considering that one could have purchased a team for $100 during the '30s, but it is a sound investment--the NFL's TV package alone brings each team $15 million a year...
...penny-ante gangsters in Mamet's American Buffalo talked of themselves as businessmen; the businessmen of Glengarry talk like gangsters. But gangsters with a weird, Damon Runyon twist. Out of the mouths of these middle-class lowlifes comes the odd flowery word used for screwball effect: "inured," "imperceptibly," "supercilious." The rest of their rhetoric is a litany of abuse, invective and those four-letter words that describe things people do every day in the privacy of their bedrooms and bathrooms. It may be that no salesman, not even these salesmen, would traffic so doggedly in obscenity...