Word: dealers
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...only refugee from peace and prosperity. A sleazy French dealer in arms and war photographs indicts all the journalists holed up in the atrociously modern hotel that lies in a shifting no-man's-land: "This our voyage en orient. But the Orient doesn't exist. It is a creation of the west. And all this--this is the fall of Western civilization." The guerillas all speak French or English; clad in olive drab fatigues, they play classical pieces on a Steinway ornamented with a machine gun. Many have spent time in Europe. The most repulsive character in the movie...
Inventory liquidations by businessmen are simply accelerating the downward price pressure. The most striking examples, of course, are in the auto industry, which is now offering rebates of up to $2,000 on some cars to help move the vehicles off dealer lots. But businessmen of all sorts have begun pruning stocks. Stevan Buxbaum, who runs a Los Angeles discount clothing store called Ideal Fashions, reports that manufacturers are calling him from as far away as New York City and offering clothes at prices below wholesale just to move the garments out of their plants...
EVERY BELLOW NOVEL has at its center some slightly modified version of the Bellow hero. A dreamy type, someone off in his own world--irretrievable so to the "commonsensical" folk surrounding him. The Bellow protagonist is a seer, a dealer in the currency of big ideas and grand historical visions. And yet, he has street smarts--savvy gleaned from a long well-spent education. But whether a garden-variety schlemiel like Tommy Wilhelm of Seize the Day, a disheveled and dislocated intellectual like Mosses Herzog of Herzog, or a questionably successful writer like Charlie Citrine of Humboldt's Gift. Homo...
Anthony Anstey (Peter Van Norden) emerges not only as a too finely tailored and too fully fed villainous wheeler-dealer, but in Gutierrez's vision he becomes a Brechtian figure of American corruption. Goldie's aunt and guardian, Mrs. Kensworth (Anna McNeely), the kind, matronly refugee from a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, foreshadows the decadence of the roaring '20s. Her and Anstey's affectations, their overladenness with jewels, and their presumed moral superiority add a touch of the gilded future America would find in store...
...White House lunch followed a joint session of Congress that was marked by a rare bipartisan cheer. Attending were such ancient adversaries as Florida Representative Claude Pepper, 81, once a red hot New Dealer, and New York's venerable Hamilton Fish, 93, who was stigmatized and immortalized in F.D.R.'s 1940 campaign refrain lambasting three conservative Republican Congressmen, "[Joseph] Martin, [Bruce] Barton and Fish." Among the speakers: Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, who was first elected as a Congressman in 1932; and F.D.R. himself, heard in recordings. Pepper drew guffaws by recounting...