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Kopit's Bone-the-Fish is a malicious and effective send-up of David Mamet's Broadway hit about Hollywood greed, Speed-the-Plow. Yet it has a vigor, and vinegar, of its own. Kopit's wry premise is to take the rhetorical excesses of ambition -- people saying they would slit their wrists, eat excrement or give up an intimate body part to achieve some goal -- and render them literally. His hustlers from the fringe of the movie business (Joseph Ragno and Bruce Adler) are more than a little crazy. Even crazier is the fact that their self- abasement might...
Doing flawless interpretations of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, players are giving new meaning to the term "Greed is good." They now charge money to sign autographs...
...comes down to fairness: the need of low- and moderate-income people for affordable housing over the greed of owners and realtors...
...fair to belittle homeownership by labelling it greed? After all, most existing homeowners in Cambridge do not sell their homes primarily to make money. They sell when they have to, for personal reasons, like moving to a new job. There is no reason to insult tenants who may buy under Proposition 1 by suggesting they will behave any differently from other homeowners. All should be treated equally...
...defiantly individualist novelist-journalist-social commentator, whose dissection of our contemporary culture has won comparisons with Dickens and Balzac, looks ahead to the '90s. Instead of the rampant greed of the waning decade, he foresees a slowing of the sexual revolution, a reviving interest in religion and a retreat from the vanities he has been chronicling so deftly...