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Michigan's unusual statute sets no standard for judging which cons are rich enough to pay as they stay; the law says that an inmate who "appears" solvent enough is subject to being charged the daily $4 to $9 that it costs the state to keep him in jail. Few actually get into this fix; the state has collected only $30,000 from paying prisoners in the past nine years. But the possibilities are clear from the record of Lifer Roman Olezniczak (murder, bank robbery), the state's top paying con. While earning $5 a month...
...WOMAN. A girl who looks simian becomes a meal ticket for the con man who exploits her misfortune in this ferociously funny Italian comedy about the beastliness of Homo sapiens...
Despite the rough realities of American life in the 1820s, Con Melody lives completely within his genteel fantasy. He despises the local villagers. He believes himself a Byron, standing in the crowd but not of it, and he often strikes an absurd pose before the mirror to recite the poet's lines, reflecting vainly on his lost aristocratic past...
...greatest difficulty in the play stems from the character of Con Melody. Partly because his pretensions are humorous, they must be portrayed as a somewhat deliberate pose. Melody, for all his perseverance, is putting it on. But deliberate pretensions cannot be ripped off with the same agonizing slowness as more unconscious fantasies. Thus the denouement in Poet is an obvious one, and it takes place in a disappointingly short time...
...University's chances of blocking the construction of the project dropped sharply when a Federal Power Commission examiner approved Con Ed's plans for the Hudson River plant on July 31. While the five-man Commission will undoubtedly review the examiner's findings this fall, it is unlikely the group will reverse the ruling. Once a utility obtains a federal license for a hydroelectric project, it can take private property by right of eminent domain...