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...updated model of the wood-burning stove or to futuristic solar heating systems. It is helping families in one of th Unites States's poorest regions to buy alternative sources of home energy with low-interest loans payable over decades. Doesn't sound like something your local Exxon or Con Ed would do, does...
...plays Miriam, the chief accomplice and paramour of the suave con man, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), who masterminded England's first celebrated train heist in 1855. Miriam served as an all-purpose decoy: to help steal ?12,000 worth of gold ingots, she had to pose successively as a French courtesan, a cockney seamstress and an old beggar. Down turns each impersonation into a polished comic nugget; she swings effortlessly in and out of her various roles. Her scenes as Miriam are just as funny: in the film's best bit, Down turns the act of shaving Connery...
...tell patients that she had gone to a staff party? (She didn't.) Should she let the doctors know when she had information they did not have? (Only when she suspected one patient was planning to kill himself.) Still worse, she found herself confronted by a crazy-house con game that she dubs "reciprocal exploitation." Anybody who had money or goods was expected to share them. Could she then refuse demands for cigarettes, money or meals? Ultimately, she lent occasional cigarettes and took patients to restaurants on the grounds that meals provided interview time...
...Bruce Babbitt, is by almost all accounts serious about putting a stop to Arizona crime, and the recent prosecution of the state's two most notorious land fraud artists, Ned Warren, Sr. and Howard Woodall, has demonstrated Arizona's concern about its national reputation as a haven for every con artist and retired mobster in the country...
...population has jumped from 150,000 to 250,000 in four years. Villahermosa has sprouted three first-class hotels, all booked solid. Highly paid oil workers have kicked up the prices of everything from housing to tortillas. Reeking of oil and money, the town is attracting the usual motley con men and drifters, losers and locos. The trucks barreling between the town and the fields rarely stop when they hit a pedestrian. About one pedestrian is killed each night, often a bewildered campesino still unable to grasp the rapid changes. Whores flash their gold-toothed smiles while cruising the wide...