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...guests at his 3,000-acre estate in the Virginia hunt country. Some enthusiastically accepted jobs in his flourishing export business. To those who wondered how a man who said he was a Government employee could be raking in so much cash and whether the whole setup did not reek of illegality, Wilson had a ready reply: his vast arms business in the Middle East was an officially sanctioned cover for his real work, which was gathering intelligence...
...local mismanagement and shoddy or nonexistent maintenance" account for "stairwells that reek of urine and ammonia" and "spray-painted graffiti" in hallways? Is it just possible, heaven forbid, that local management had assistance from the tenants...
...monolithic high-rises that make up New York City's St. Nicholas public housing project sprawl over an area roughly the size of Rockefeller Center. But there the comparison ends. The hallways are easels for spray-painted graffiti. The stairwells reek of urine and ammonia...
Renko is no simple good guy, but rather on ordinary Russian militia policeman who becomes a scapegoat for solving the murders, which reek of corruption and international extortion. Hurt portrays Renko as an apathetic officer who agrees to work on the case only until the KGB will take it away from him. But as he begins to piece together the lives of the victims, Renko becomes caught in the middle, realizing that if he solves the case, he will most like be murdered himself, but remaining reluctant to separate himself from the case's fascinating details...
PLAYS WRITTEN BY Tennessee Williams reek of viciousness, violence, and sexual tension. Some of his most famous characters--Amanda in The Glass Menagerie and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire--struggle with self-control and eventually find themselves unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. The characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, however, face an unmistakingly real existence controlled by alcoholism, latent homosexuality, and insatiable desire and greed. A successful production of any Williams play requires an intimate understanding of the underlying themes and a willingness to confront them straight on without embellishing the lines with sappy overacting...