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...Garfinkle, Sterner has created a hillarious incarnation of capitalist evil, a man so consumed with avarice that he programs his computer to tell him daily which shares "are the fairest of them all." Willis, who appeared in the original Off-Broadway production, gives Garfinkle an emotional presence to match his considerable bulk. Unlike Gordon Gekko, the smoothly detatched anti-hero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street, Garfinkle physically revels in the obscene amounts of money he is making. He pumps his arm, chews gum ferociously and hurls one-liners across the stage...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Other People's Money: Tales of the Street | 9/20/1991 | See Source »

...thought. Standing up to Uncle Sam, refusing to support a bourgeois capitalist state. True revolutionaries. Or so I thought...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Communism Falls | 9/19/1991 | See Source »

Revolution Books, Cambridge's best (and last) bastion of communist ideology, is in danger of succumbing to that most dreaded of capitalist institutions: the sales...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Communism Falls | 9/19/1991 | See Source »

...live by capitalist rules. There is a tension there," Adler said...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Communism Falls | 9/19/1991 | See Source »

...wrong way," he explains. He dislikes Boris Yeltsin ("Now I think he becomes the biggest danger") as well as Mikhail Gorbachev (an "opportunist" who "tends to sit on both sides of the fence"). A hard- liner at heart, Hall blasts both men for leading the Soviet Union down the capitalist road. Once capitalism's failures emerge, he predicts, the Soviets will scurry back to socialism. No wonder critics have dubbed him the "Norman Vincent Peale of the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last of The Red-Hot Believers: GUS HALL | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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