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MARRIED TO THE MOB. Another brand of all-American capitalism, the Mafia, takes its licks in Jonathan Demme's hip jape. Michelle Pfeiffer (swoon!) is a mob widow on the lam, and Dean Stockwell is tops as a henpecked gang lord.
They meet with the Spruce Goose looming dramatically behind them -- two legends from the lunatic fringe of American capitalism. Howard Hughes (Dean Stockwell, in another of his sharply incised cameos) gestures toward history's largest airplane. "They say it can't fly," he intently whispers, "but that's not the...
The picture derives much of its energy from the surrealistic yet unpretentious play of these styles. But not all of it. The script is rich in ambiguous allusions to the sustaining myths of old-fashioned popular fiction and the folklore of capitalism. It neither blandly accepts them nor blithely satirizes...
Mayer defines markets the old-fashioned way -- as mechanisms for the efficient allocation of resources -- and so looks on "buying the market" (playing the S&P 500, for example) as an unproductive distortion of the system. "What made stock markets important in an economy," he writes, "was their transmission of...
Gorbachev has already made startling progress by putting most of the country's industry on a self-financing system and encouraging private initiative in cooperative and individual enterprises. But the reform process has run up against bureaucratic resistance and opposition from traditional Communists, who see the profit motive as sinful...