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...expectations, after the void of the first two plays, makes this third one possibly the most disappointing. Set in a whorehouse in Nebraska, 1896, the story revolves around Allison (Linda Cameron), a seventeen-year-old making her debut in Mrs. Push's (Frances Shrand) establishment. Her third floor "Celestial Chamber" invaded by an aging bandito (Bart McCarthy), she first tries to bed him, believing him to be her first customer. When he finally convinces her that he is on the run, she hides him during an impromptu visit from her 'fiance' Harvey Handcock (Jack Marshall), the town sheriff. When Harvey...
Barbara J. Sullivan of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce said this year has been an especially bad shoplifting season. "People don't have enough money, but they still want things," Sullivan said...
Donovan has many supporters in the business community, which applauds his zeal for deregulation. Says John Tysse of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "He understands that his is a broader mandate than simply marching to the tune of the AFL-CIO." Nevertheless, in an Administration that suffers from poor relations with organized labor, much of the blame goes to Donovan, with...
...more reassuring example. Almost to the day 92 years ago, the "Great Lynn Fire" gutted four banks, three newspapers, 158 factories, 128 homes and 80 shoe companies, the latter reflecting an industry entrenched in Lynn since 1635. That blaze, claims Retailer Barry Zimman, a former president of the Lynn Chamber of Commerce, unexpectedly brought Lynn renewed prosperity. It cut a swath through small outdated structures that were replaced by big brick shoe factories-some of them destroyed in what residents are already calling the "Second Great Lynn Fire...
...like the bargaining that the Japanese were conducting with the U.S. before Pearl Harbor. Sometimes negotiations are only empty dances of punctilio: at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, it took the delegates six months to decide in what order they would enter and be seated in the negotiating chamber; the U.S. and North Viet Nam held similarly intricate discussions about the shape of the table in Paris. Negotiations can produce their own tragedies, as Versailles did, as Yalta did. But without negotiation, things tend to fall more quickly of their own weight into patterns of force and submission, autocracy...