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...NETHER A HONGKONGgirlie show on its way to New York or a cultural embassy from the PRC, Chinese Cabaret is the latest brain child of peripatetic director Paul Warner '84 and his musical cohort Peter Melnick '80 Taking 10 Bronze Age Chinese poems and one by William Blake-all scored in Melnick-musical-Warner has created a musical exorcism of doomed love...
...living in Mexico, withdraws all the way to Olympus. There Athena and Aphrodite, no less, concern themselves with protecting the hapless members of an apolitical poetry group that meets each week in Buenos Aires. They have been denounced to the police, and a surveillance has been mounted. The dread nether god Hades decrees that twelve of the poets shall be seized by a parapolice murder gang. Can Hades be tricked into abandoning his evil intention by the underworld nymph Mintho and Hermes, the lust distracted messenger god? Are the gods, in fact taking proper care of their silly, self-important...
...nether reaches of some mystical land-call it California-there must be a high school that inspires the sort of shenanigans that pop up in just about every R-rated teen movie these days. Call it Contact High. There you will find no teachers, only agents; no exams, only screen tests; no graduation, only the picking up of options. The boys are feral carnivores out of The Blackboard Jungle; the girls are pert Circes out of a sophomore's wet dream. The nice guys surf, smoke dope and screw around; the bad ones torch autos, walk with a surly...
...lawyers, doctors and women in what might be called high-profile jobs (journalism, publishing, broadcasting, fashion) take an outsize portion of public attention, partly because they are attractive exemplars of what is possible. But it is at the nether end of the economic scale that the hardest battles are being fought, and it is there that the statistics begin to take on the proportions of a body count...
...cheating fuels the so-called underground economy, the nether world of business where payments are made in cash for everything from dental care to marijuana. A major purpose of operating in the underground economy, of course, is to avoid taxes...