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Your article on wrestler Jesse Ventura's election as Governor of Minnesota [ELECTION REPORT, Nov. 16] made me question what goes through people's minds when they vote. Has politics become so corrupt that a man with hardly any position on political issues can run for office and stand a chance of winning? EILEEN KELLY Bethpage...
Hoffa's International Brotherhood of Teamsters would not only rival the power of the U.A.W., it would also become known as America's most corrupt union. That the two men, almost polar opposites, should have existed in the same city at the same time is not just remarkable. Their differences would define the deepest schism in American labor, splitting the movement into two irreconcilable camps, one progressive and idealistic, the other conservative and avaricious...
...Kissinger be tried, if the Cambodians demand it. If we believe in justice, and if we believe that our policies are just, then we should be able to support international courts without hesitation. If those courts are corrupt or biased, then that is no reason to avoid them; if we are part of the international community, and we certainly can't claim that we aren't, then the quality of justice in such courts is also in our hands...
...speaking parts and 5,128 extras--forces sufficient, if deployed in a different context, to make a biblical spectacle. Or--better comparison--a screen version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair or some other satirical, multilayered saga of halfway decent, halfway desperate people trying to make their way in a corrupt society...
...final analysis, the characters face the struggle of choosing between rudeness and politeness, hypocrisy and honesty. Ruiz at first seems to side with Alceste and his obsession with frank expression. The disenchanted reporter seems oddly calm as he packs his bags, forsaking his love to escape the corrupt society of man. Celimene, on the other hand, sits alone, quietly nursing a drink as the lights fade out on her shattered world. Shohet's soulful portrayal of Celimene's despair would be a perfectly fine way to conclude the play...