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CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. In Woody Allen's acute meditation on the Greed decade, bad men are rewarded for their crimes and nice guys worry about committing misdemeanors. This is Allen in his funny-serious mood, farcical and dour by turns, a showman of gentle misanthropy...
Worst of all for Salomon Brothers, Michael Lewis, who was earning $225,000 a year at the age of 27, overdosed on greed and quit the firm to empty his journals into this brief, knowing and hilarious volume. Alas, its disclosures are not likely to be heeded. The Street provokes a book of revelations nearly every year, but the con men, the customers and the crashes go on. Aside from Lewis, hardly anyone seems to notice that Wall Street has always been a thoroughfare with a river at one end and a cemetery at the other...
...history of photojournalism is a saga of technological progress, commercial greed and individual heroism. It includes a shocking number of wars and tragedies -- events with the visual power that compels people to buy newspapers and magazines. But the development of news photography is also the story of how cameras became smaller and film more sensitive, so that journalists could capture the look of the factory, the dance hall, the dictator's study, the sharecropper's cabin and other venues of daily life. These are all here, the momentous and the mundane alike...
...fulfillment can awaken heaven's sleeping eye, then what in this world can? If Manhattan, coming at the end of the '70s, was Woody Allen's comment on that decade's besetting sin, self-absorption, then this is his concluding unscientific postscript on the besetting sin of the '80s, greed. At times the joints in the movie's carpentry are strained, at times the mood swings jarring. But they stir us from our comfortable stupor and vivify a true, moral, always acute and often hilarious meditation on the psychological economy of the Reagan years...
COVER: Along the ivory trail from poachers in Africa to dealers in Asia, greed and deceit put the elephant in peril...