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...Thatcher Toby jugs -- ceramic mugs shaped in a likeness of her wearing a three-cornered hat -- moved briskly at $200 each when they were introduced in 1989. Then came the poll tax early this year, and sales vanished. Once Thatcher resigned, however, the orders jumped again, obeying Thatcher's dictum that the marketplace should be allowed to dictate demand...
...past. Friction between the various republics may reflect the conflict between Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy, or Islam and Christianity, or Slav and Turk, or Slav and German. Yugoslavs do not even share an alphabet: Serbia uses Cyrillic script; Croatia and Slovenia, Roman. As the old British dictum went, Yugoslavia is a small country with big problems -- six republics, five nationalities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets and one political party. The only change today is a proliferation of parties as well...
...observing this dictum...
Although Koch quoted Voltaire's famous dictum"I disagree with what you say, but I will fight tothe death for your right to say it" he put it moredirectly later. "Stupid people have the right toexpress stupid ideas," he said
...their heyday. Tune takes a set more cluttered than Threepenny's -- fluted columns, a revolving door, dozens of chairs -- and weaves around it a ceaseless flow. If some of the wizardry is borrowed from bygone auteur directors, that is in keeping with the real meaning of Brecht's dictum: know enough to take the best from the best...