Word: levying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tyntareva and her customers were part of the Soviet Union's thriving underground economy. This involves more than just the familiar black marketeers, dealing in Levi's and ballpoint pens, icons and caviar, who greet Western visitors around the main tourist hotels. It is, in fact, a second economy, parallel to the official state-controlled one. In a thriving permanent network, illegal and quasi-legal entrepreneurs, speculators and thieves sell hard-to-get goods and services to workers, peasants and even state officials...
When King does attempt his own thesis, applying not only Freud, but Hegel, Weber, Neitzshe, Levi-Strauss, and Marx to the Southern burden, his grandiose designs appear pretentious at best, silly at worst. Almost randomly, King inserts short paragraphs alluding to Levi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship to back up his thesis on incest as repetition. King is not afraid, unfortunately, to make sweeping one-line statements about Freud's memory theories or characterize, without explaining, Cash as the "Weberian ideal type." King incessantly refers to these sociological and psychological giants with college freshman zeal: proud of his discovery...
...company started an aggressive campaign to keep its 23 million charge customers despite Washington's demands for credit restraints. Merchandising experts say that the firm may eventually have to drop its policy of refusing to stock little besides its own brands. Sears still resists selling national labels like Levi's or Gloria Vanderbilt, which middle-class customers now demand...
...book took its title from the last train stop before Lucania, and the last outpost of the civilization that had nurtured Levi. The implication of the title is that despite the primitive religiosity of the culture that lay beyond Eboli, even the Saviour would have stopped before entering a realm "hedged in by custom and sorrow . . . without comfort or solace." What Levi -played with patient sympathy and intelligence by Gian Maria Volonte - finds in Lucania is a drunken priest who is sometimes stoned by the village children, a bombastic mayor with the habit of summoning everyone to the town square...
...claim is made that Levi, in a relatively short stay, changed the lives of these people. More likely, they changed his, granting him a more humane and compassionate understanding of the richness of real life. That life goes on, time without end, below and beyond the political illusions that bemuse people with the education and leisure to indulge them. At the abstract level, Levi (and his book's cinematic interpreters) seems to be saying that the simpler the life people lead, the more resistant it is to the forces of change, even when those forces are backed by coercive...