Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blocking currency movements with regulations tends to be as fruitless as trying to control water with a rake. Trade has been severely stymied. "There is no practical way to handle transactions with Mexico," says Mark Miles of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. "If we got a check from a Mexican, there is nothing we could do with it. And what do we do with pesos?" Says Doug Fuller, a Southern California Ford dealer: "It's kind of a catch-22. They can't get dollars and we can't take pesos...
...says, sending a swift shot to the rake's midriff and pulling his coat down from his shoulders, thus locking the charlatan's hands in his pockets. Instead of disarming the sap as Bogart does at a moment just like this in The Maltese Falcon, Henry sends the bum sprawling into the gutter with an efficient trip. He flips up Higginbottom's coattails and, performing a maneuver familiar to most 11-year-olds as a "wedgle," pulls the elastic of his victim's underwear far into the pitiless...
...face on his promise to make a public disclosure of the Overseers' investigation into Harvard's real estate practices. While revealing in April that a written report would not be issued. Wilkins, a Justice on the Supreme Judicial Court, said that such a report "might be warranted, but to rake over the coals and assess blame isn't as important in the long run" as working quietly behind the scenes to resolve differences. Several tenant leaders and elected officials agreed with City Councilor David Sullivan, who explained that "informal discussions are not public, and so there is no accountability...
...When they first asked me to do The Rake," says Russell, "my heart sank because I had this memory of the most boring evening of my life. I'm not interested in being different for its own sake, and the music in any opera is sacred to me. But if one is true to the spirit of a work, if you don't destroy that spirit, then you can do what you like...
There is certainly nothing boring about this Rake. For all its flashy images, the production captures the opera's cautionary moral spirit. Russell, however, is more concerned about a contemporary demon. Tom and Anne are watching TV as the opera opens, and the commercials excite his desire for the wealth flaunted by Nick Shadow. At the end, having fought off one devil, Tom gazes at the other-a TV screen-with fellow mental patients. In a chilling coup de théátre, the principals are led into the asylum, gibbering as they warn of the dangers of idle...