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...residents law-abiding clerics, but there are 155 Swiss guards and blue-suited security men to police the 108 acres of the tiny country. That works out to about one peace officer for every 4.7 men of God. The Vatican has no jail, and the occasional pickpocket caught plying his trade in St. Peter's Square is normally turned over to Roman authorities...
Compared with the grand larceny in some other countries, inflation has rarely been more than a pesky pickpocket in the U.S. Rising prices filched a few pennies at a time from wages and profits and prompted endless grousing, but for a majority of Americans, caused no real hardship; incomes usually went up faster. So, nothing in recent history has prepared the nation for the shock of what is happening today: a double-digit inflation that raises unsettling visions among many Americans of the price spirals in South America or Indonesia...
...outset, John Morris's harp chords and sustained flute convey an ominous mood appropriate for the 16th-century Vienna where "quite athwart goes all decorum." Michael Kahn has added a brief prologue that introduces us to some of the unsavory people in the city--including a blind beggar, a pickpocket, a legless cripple. There is no point in trying to avoid the play's prevailingly rancid taste. Kahn has abridged the text a little, so that the show has a running-time of two and a half hours...
This one starts out by recounting the rapacious career of one Thomas Oliver, who was born in an Ohio River town in 1870. At 13 he left home, and by 17 he was prospering as a pickpocket, pimp and smuggler. After another ten years of wandering, he winds up down the river in New Orleans. His first big money comes from running whorehouses, though the early jazz-band accompaniments nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini...
...landed gentry from the antebellum mansions who had so long manipulated the state's agrarian economy have yielded to commercial captains from suburban split-levels. Pickpocket politics no longer sets poor white against poor black for scarce jobs; rather it works in a growing job market to depress wages and make union organizing difficult. Growth has been slowed some what by the recession, but a firm federal floor under the Southern economy has so far protected the region from wide fluctuations. Military payrolls and farm subsidies?economic buffers care fully cultivated by the South's high-seniority senators and congressmen?...