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...Christmas present to the scrap-metal dealers--who contributed more than $300,000 to political candidates and committees during the 1990s--made them very happy. Others in the recycling chain were not so happy. All of a sudden, they were potentially responsible for millions of dollars in damages the junkmen might otherwise have...
...Middle East. 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Stub Junkmen on Thursday, March 17. Jawbox on Friday, March 18. Green Magnet on Saturday, March 19 MTV Spoken Wurd four on Sunday, March 20. Kerouac Festival on Tuesday, March 22. Upstairs: The Friggs on Thursday, March 17. Kudgel on Friday, March 18. Truman's Water on Saturday, March 19. Tsunmai on Wednesday, March...
...paid attention. Just as Marxism is being dismantled by its managers, the market is being undone by its junkmen. Or is it? Capitalism seems to thrive on periodic collapses. After all, the Drexel affair is only the latest float in a parade of American infamies. They date back to the early 19th century, when a hustler named Daniel Drew delivered some livestock to the plutocrats Henry and John Jay Astor. On the last three days of the trip from Ohio to New York, Drew refused to let his cattle drink. Just before they clomped up to the weighing station...
...been patrolled by "the Black Pajama Navy" -a force of 500 junks and 4,000 conscripts who resemble freebooters more than freedom fighters. Clad in black cotton bellbottoms, draped with carbines and bandoleers, each of them wearing a tattoo that reads Sat Cong ("Kill Communists") on their chests, the "junkmen" look like tough customers. They have girls in every port, they dine on grilled octopus stewed in rotten fish sauce, they swipe fish from passing customers, and they claim to have searched 200,000 boats last year. But of the 830,000 persons aboard, only 1,850 were arrested...
...first of these scenes are quite funny--especially in Lisbon just before the earthquake where junkmen, winesellers, and Arab conjurers litter the stage. A bear frolics--chased by his bearman--and the wild infant Casmira screams, "The earth will quake and the ground will shake," to which the Very, Very Old Inquisitor grunts toward the Very Old Inquisitor, "The danger has passed." Just then the stage begins to rumble. As the play wears on, however, these scenes become repetitions and progressively less funny. Toward the end, Candide wearily remarks, "You cannot live by bed alone...