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...Chicago (a city that really symbolizes all metropolises) just before World War I, Jungle of Cities is about a duel between two men: Shlink (Nicholas Lawrence), the rich and heartless owner of a lumber mill and George Garga (Charles Puckette), the poor and lively library attendant. Spying the youthful fighting spirit in Garga at the play's beginning Shlink hands his business over to Garga, giving the poor agrarian boy a shot at material comfort and power. Garga nabs the offer while Shlink takes on the country boy's family obligations. The switch ultimately turns Garga's family relation...
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...there? That is the question that continues to intrigue Presidents. Are these Soviets really heartless or are they so intimidated by the system that they cannot act human? Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believed they had found at least an auricle of Leonid Brezhnev, and detente followed. Jimmy Carter, who hand-penned some notes to Brezhnev, even thought the replies were special-until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan...
...does not want to shortchange the common man, whose interests he claims to champion. By last year local black-marketeering had become such a fine art that rice cost five times as much in Tehran as in New York. In April, therefore, the Ayatullah issued a withering diatribe against "heartless hoarders and overchargers" and launched a brutal purge against "economic terrorists." Thousands of small traders were fined, imprisoned and publicly whipped; in August two black-marketeers were sentenced to death...
...Chinese general, still observes the ancient code of honor in a world where that concept has little place. As richly textured as a tapestry, The Warlord captures both the essence of Asia and the sweeping panorama of a people trapped between the ancient grinding forces of hollow tradition and heartless change...