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...people with holes in their careers: a writer reduced to doing last minute re-writes on other people's scripts, a director who must occupy his time doing commercials, stars who cannot find studios willing to meet their price. But the theme of the unholy drives that leave them prey to Coburn's mercy, the crumbling self-images which they are struggling to maintain through his promised largesse, is never explored. The events on the yacht pass through their minds without triggering a trace of self-realization. Their lives are framed as veneer on a tricky plot. Unable to scare...
When the samurai hordes poured across the Sea of Japan into Korea almost four centuries ago, a legendary Korean kisaeng (courtesan) named Gae Non vowed to kill the invaders' leading general. She toasted her prey at an outdoor party, then bound herself to him with a sash as a token of eternal love. A moment later, so the story goes, she plunged into a nearby ravine, dragging the general with her to death and fulfilling her vow. In Seoul these days, the kisaeng response to a new and different kind of Japanese invasion is a lot more affectionate...
...Scotch is heavily dependent on his broker. No daily price lists on Scotch trades are published in the U.S., and the Securities and Exchange Commission has been unable to establish regulatory authority over the business, although it contends that the warehouse receipts are investment contracts. Scotch plungers also are prey to arcane worries; for example, if much of the investor's whisky evaporates in storage, the price of his barrel goes down. If all the uncertainties drive an investor to drink, he cannot even readily imbibe his own booze. To bring it into the U.S. he would, in effect...
...fact that syphilis was Ibsen's symbol rather than his subject. The disease stands for all that is twisted and stunted when life is held in thrall by narrow, provincial social conventions. People in such a society, Ibsen shows us, are not so much a prey to quiet desperation as to desperate hypocrisy...
...team fell prey to weak doubles matches but won a close contest, 5-4. The Yardlings lost two of its three paired matches but proved strong in singles by wining four of six contests...