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...slow motion, eerily, as if Soto wished to engrave their deaths indelibly in the audience's memory. The experiences and observations of Laurnet Furzieff, a French journalist who watches scenes in the street, the destruction of the Moneda Palace, and the grotesque rejoicing of the upper classes, lend coherence to the film. Furzieff's question to General Pinochet in a final press conference--"What will you do about the copper mines?"--elicits a response that indicates who will benefit most from the coup. "We will return them to their legal owners," the general says, "the American companies...
Successful Mafia men have several gambits for laundering enough cash to live exceedingly well by most Americans' standards, if not like the jet-set multimillionaires that their net worth would enable them to be. Some pass money to very cooperative bankers, who lend it back. Others own legal businesses with large cash flows?bars, pizza parlors, restaurants, jukebox companies or vending-machine firms. No matter how poorly the business may do, its books show huge profits because the mobster is pumping in the rackets money, thereby converting it into cash that can be spent openly. Other Mafiosi have no-show...
...credits would be given to homeowners who weatherproof their houses with various kinds of insulation, storm windows, and automatic thermostats. Utility companies would be encouraged-or perhaps required-to offer their customers programs for conserving oil or gas in the home. Banking institutions might also be required to lend money for energy-saving projects, and the loans would be underwritten by federal agencies...
...wood, the balance of dream and nightmare, and the corresponding balance of the two directorial approaches, becomes evident. The second act opens with a fairy dance, choreographed by Cynthia Raymond. As dissonant, atonal music fills the room, dancers gyrate on stage, suggestively entwined. This sequence, no doubt intended to lend an erotic and Dionysian flavor to the production, never fully involves the audience; it is contrived and artificial...
...best interests of both our countries. We would hope South Africa would continue to treat us simply as a normal friend would treat us, and would not turn against us as the rest of our friends in the world have done. We would hope, for example, they would never lend themselves to the despicable game of trying to apply sanctions against us and persecute us because we try to live a normal life and mind our own business...