Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...African political life. The white community possesses not only the sheer strength but the will to keep power; 40 percent of employable Afrikaaners work for the government and thus have a direct stake in upholding apartheid. The South African economy can withstand an economic siege, and plentiful reserves of gold, diamonds, and strategic metals ensure that someone, somewhere, will always do business with Pretoria. Writes John Kane-Berman, director of the Institute of Race Relations and a liberal opponent of the government: "This government is entrenched well into the next century; that is a view, not a wish...
...money bankrolled travel for the Marcos family. In 1981, for example, Imelda Marcos spent $800,000 on "official" visits to Iraq, Kenya, Mexico and the U.S.--all at the expense of the military. Noted Congressman Solarz: "Imelda used the Philippine intelligence budget as the equivalent of the American Express Gold Card...
...accumulate so much--2,700 pairs of shoes, 3,000 women--if there is no use for all of them? How much gold is enough? Only a sane person would think to ask. An Eskimo hunter who kills only the game necessary to feed his family would have been horrified by Theodore Roosevelt, who could not have consumed more than one ten-thousandth of the animals he slaughtered. Roosevelt loved hunting the way that Imelda loves shopping. He loved the kick of the gun and the smell of the powder. He loved the antlers. The same sportive hormones...
...suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle. Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant of great wealth named Beaujean came to the same dead end as Marcos with his Swiss gold and his ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia . . . a monstrous, bald, bloated old man in a bed sculptured and painted to resemble a gilded basket...
...stage glow in what could have been a formulaic speech about his having yearned to be an actor even before he knew that the profession existed. The finest performance is Ivey's as the play's forceful center, the clangy-voiced, flighty, phrase- turning mother with a heart of gold and a will of molybdenum. She always gets her way. Perhaps the best measure of the play's impact is that audiences depart eagerly debating whether she was right...