Word: greeds
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...play of greed, corruption, sales, dehumanization, money, and crime. (Sound familiar? It is.) It references the fall of Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Christian Collins's Shelly Levene seems inspired by the Michael Milken saga. Is this yet another latecomer in the formerly fashionable critique of the "excesses of the 1980s," or is it somehow perversely nostalgic for the Glitter Decade? Either way, Glengarry Glen Ross seems unnecessarily dated, if not outright superfluous...
...development costs. Still, when the company brought its drug to market, it set the price extraordinarily high, claiming that the process of harvesting the enzyme from human placental tissue is expensive, a claim challenged by a growing number of Gaucher's patients. "This is the worst illustration of corporate greed I've seen," says Abbey Meyers, executive director of the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Responding to Meyers, Genzyme's chairman of the board, Henri Termeer, says, "It's not a matter of greed. It's a high-cost product. There is no flexibility on price here...
Rome finally fell to the barbarians because of its decadence. Modern Italians are learning that history can repeat itself. Their proud and prosperous country is in decline and free fall because of some nasty vices familiar to the Caesars: greed, complacency and a betrayal of trust by those on whom it was conferred. Last year the ignominious ouster of the lira from Europe's exchange-rate mechanism told Italians that their economy was not as resilient as they once thought. Then they were forced to confront the power of the Mafia. And for 18 agonizing months they have been discovering...
...fault lies with the script itself, the most puzzling aspect being the decision to produce it in the first place. It attempts to bring us into the world of yet another "unnamed South or Latin American country," ruled by a dictator who embodies the nation's hollow state of greed and corruption. This El Commandante Gutierrez (Jonathan Fried) enters trailing a long tube of flickering lights behind him that conducts electrodes into his mechanical frame, operated by the real, unseen dictator in a far-off control room. His counterpart is Uyttersprot (Jack Willis), an embittered flunky who plots to bring...
...This prompts one of several debates with Colin (the penis) over who's really in control of the marquis' body. The marquis must accept the consequences each time he uses his companion Colin. His imprisonment and the political furor raging around him prompts a realization of the links between greed and art, opression and decadence, lust and autonomy. Sex is the nexus of these various concerns...