Word: capitalist
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...cancer. On his deathbed, unable to ply his wiles, he was superseded at Time Warner by Gerald Levin. Superseded but not replaced. Ross was the inimitable master of the art of seduction. From Spielberg to the Time Inc. board, he convinced others that he wasn't a venal capitalist -- he was really George Bailey...
...north in Beijing, China too is on a capitalist splurge. Every block has its own office tower and luxury hotel under construction, and everybody is an entrepreneur. On a visit with American journalists to the Great Wall, where you can now get a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, two middle-aged former Marxists share their experiences of trying to make it big in the new China. One is marketing a spray said to kill hiv, the virus that causes aids. The other is trying to develop a Buddhism theme park...
...Saigon a girl of nine or 10 was selling postcards. These children with their souvenir postcards are everywhere now in the South, tugging at sleeves, beseeching with practiced but adorable smiles, the authorities having become gradually reconciled to such small-scale enterprise. On this particular Sunday, this particular young capitalist was particularly beguiling, and had an advantage: her customer was at loose ends, having missed Palm Sunday services. The cathedral would not open again for hours. At the end of protracted negotiations, she got her asking price, one U.S. dollar, for a package of 10 postcards. She offered her palm...
...minutes, Berri locks viewers inside Zola's 19th century coal mines, where death by cave-in seems only slightly worse than the 12-hour-a-day life sentences that are the miners' jobs. Aboveground too, everything seems a dark metaphor for exploitation. Sex, marriage, even motherhood are tainted by capitalist precepts: a woman's basic job is to keep the workers sated and breed more of them...
...found the Chinese tough, idealistic, fanatical, single-minded, remarkable and uncomfortably aware of the philosophical contradictions involved in their arranging a visit by their capitalist archenemy." Is this an exasperated Warren Christopher Justifying his recent, failed, diplomatic mission to China? No, these were Henry Kissinger's findings over 20 years ago while laying the groundwork for president Nixon's historic visit...