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Cheating was not restricted to public officials. Six local accountants taught the proprietors how to save taxes by hiding income. But the best teacher was a "Mr. Fixit" named Philip Barasch. Unaware of the investigators' true identity, Barasch, a big Chicago landlord and self-styled "business broker," guided them every step of the way, telling them the hour inspectors would show up and the exact amount to give them (with Barasch's business card enclosed). The only officials he did not advise bribing were police because, he said, "if you pay off a cop, they keep coming around...
Even if these scenes didn't wrench us out of the normal world, perhaps, the story would, for it is often as difficult to fathom as the wanton brutality. Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu, as landlord and peasant, are bound together, unable to abandon either their friendship or their class positions. The two were boys together: DeNiro always following and admiring the peasant Depardieu; but their friendship was always flawed because, as Depardieu says, "I caught the frogs your family...
From the first, their lives are complicated by the other characters. Their families make demands on them as children, and when they grow up there are the peasants who look to Depardieu, a fierce socialist, for leadership, and the landlords and fascists who look to De Niro to support their efforts to subdue the peasants. There are women, a dedicated socialist and a half made dilettante. And of course, there are the historical forces, requiring De Niro to choose between his socialism and his position as a landlord. 1900 unfolds on many levels; it is hard to keep up with...
...Governor, and even when Lance was head of OMB, Mclntyre as Assistant Director did most of the real work of budget preparation. (Lance told anyone who would listen that he did not like to get mixed up with figures, and some OMB staffers referred to him as an "absentee landlord...
Living in the barrio may mean living in Columbia Terrace, a complex of 62 apartments built as mixed-income housing five years ago with federal and private monies, and now jointly run by the Cambridge Association of Spanish-speaking Tenants (CAST) and the landlord, Abrams Management...