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There is a shortage of consumer goods as a result of strict import quotas, made necessary by declining oil revenues. Many factories are running at 40% or less of capacity because of a shortage of imported raw materials. Oil revenues are likely to be as low as $12 billion this year, down from $21 billion in 1983. But there is a flourishing black market that enables boutiques on Tehran's fashionable Vali-Asr Avenue to sell designer jeans for $120 a pair. Whisky can be found for $100 a bottle, despite the regime's strict...
Ciulei's vision, which downplays romance and sees courtship and marriage as raw struggles for power, owes much to Brook. But the insights into the characters, the reasoned resistance to happy endings and especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss...
...murder of Caroline’s uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, only a few years later and the death of her cousin, Michael A. Kennedy ’80, following a ski accident in 1997, left her emotionally raw...
...don’t just hear the facts—nothing but the facts, ma’am. That Joe Friday approach is the fare of police logs and bad cops reporting. These raw radio transmissions give out the texture of law enforcement’s culture. You hear the way police, fire and medical responders think. Even better, you get a sense of the humor and frustration that goes with their jobs...
...scanner. The bus drivers, firemen, and police officers I spot during my daily routine transform into the radio personalities on my favorite show. The more I listen, the more I learn about their characters, which is what I love about reporting. I get access to an endless stream of raw information that I can turn into a story. Neither job nor hobby, scanning is my addiction. Whenever I’m out and about I feel the painful sting of withdrawal from my scanner. At the first sound of a siren my ears perk up and my heart quickens...