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Today, however, both these visual keynotes have been replaced by the chaos of capitalism's dikaya zhizn, or "wild life": weather-beaten babushkas who beg from filthy sidewalks, marauding bands of gypsy children, Lycra-skirted strumpets cavorting with Western businessmen, bankers tooling around town in armor-plated Mercedes, mafia moguls...
Home is a former Soviet satellite in its convulsive lurch toward capitalism. Anything is possible for a man with a dream and no scruples about realizing it. Karol plunges into the black market, into real estate and international finance; he comes this close to murder. And all in an elaborate...
And it was nearly impossible for anorganization whose typical members were young,full-time students with a disdain for thetrappings of capitalism to become a fundraisingpowerhouse.
The Tony Award front runner for best revival and best set -- a category rarely won by a straight play -- is the London import An Inspector Calls, a drawing- room melodrama exploded into a streetscape of urban despair. The opening scenes are daringly played inside an enclosed mini-mansion that gradually...
China has come a long way since Mao Zedong tried to rekindle its revolutionary fervor with his proclaimed Cultural Revolution of 1966. The subsequent and more moderate leadership of Deng Xiaoping has made a cautious and gradual attempt at economic liberalization. As China undertakes this difficult transition from Communism to...