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Communist nations have paid the market the ultimate compliment by trying to introduce elements of market pricing into their own economies, so far with meager success. The trademarks of Communist economies remain indelible: low productivity, shortages of goods, lengthy queues in stores, years-long waits for apartments. In order to spur initiative, most Communist countries also have huge and growing differences in real income (and perquisites) between commissar and collective farmer. Nikita Khrushchev once replied to a charge that the Soviet Union was going capitalist: "Call it what you will, incentives are the only way to make people work harder...
...conned con man in The Sting), the theater is his true territory. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he starred in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and, on Broadway, in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker and Old Times. Pinter returned the compliment by directing The Man in the Glass Booth, a play Shaw adapted from one of his own five novels. For all this, Shaw still resents what he calls "the English snobbishness about the superiority of acting onstage." He likes the challenge of building .a character on film, "where very often...
...petty grievance. But he could also be severe with a junior member of the Saud dynasty who had discredited the royal family by gambling away huge sums of money on the roulette wheels of Monaco or Las Vegas. An aide who once asked Faisal why he did not compliment people who did good work for him received a blunt answer: "It is their duty...
...popular image is that of a happy-go-lucky, slightly kooky redhead. She is in fact indomitably and infectiously humorous. But that is part of a complex cerebral nature. Because she is always thoroughly prepared and as knowledgeable about any particular opera as they, her colleagues tend to compliment her in the light of their own specialty. "She thinks of the composite work like a conductor," says Thomas Schippers, who will conduct Siege. "Her mind works like a director's mind," says Sarah Caldwell, who has directed Sills for years at the Opera Company of Boston...
...that first genuine compliment. Fisher breaks into a genuine grin. "Why thank you," he says...