Word: jitney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JITNEY With all the fashionable cynicism around, August Wilson's warm-spirited embrace of his characters looks almost radical. This early work, given a "definitive" rewrite by Wilson and staged anew in Boston and Baltimore, immerses us in the day-to-day life of a gypsy cab company in Pittsburgh, Pa., and proves once again that Wilson is one of our most accomplished, full-bodied dramatists...
...effort, Wilson rivets our attention on the daily struggles of a half-dozen ordinary but entirely individual characters while gradually homing in on the explosive conflict between two: the cab company's owner and his estranged son, just released from prison after 20 years. Unusual for a Wilson play, Jitney loses some momentum in the second act; but it's still a major work by a major artist...
...would you like to get the Federal Government to invest with you in a hot new business in the global market? Say a company that manufactures cotton and coffee in Argentina? Or a company that manufactures vans for the local jitney service in South Africa? Or a soft-drink company in Russia? For every buck you put up, the government, in the form of something called the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), puts up two bucks. Best of all, if the deal goes sour because of a crumbling economy, currency devaluation or some other unforeseen event, you won't have...