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...Persian Gulf has now become a romper room of business corruption. In Saudi Arabia, a key government minister is widely reported to have collected upwards of $500 million in "commission fees" in connection with foreign business ventures in the past year alone. To do business in Saudi Arabia, it is essential to be connected, via an agent or middleman, to a member of the royal family, which controls not just the government but business as well. Says a veteran U.S. businessman bluntly: "Everyone needs a prince." Finding one is not hard; there are 5,000 princes in the royal family...
...England's insensitive aristocracy--and his servant Cocky--the embodiment of England's righteous lower class--imagine their own metaphysical stage and act out society's cruelties in The Game. As Sir arbitrarily changes the rules, forcing Cocky to grovel for a loaf of bread, Greasepaint seems like a Romper Room production of some absurdist play. For the entire first act, The Game follows its repetitive course with Sir betraying poor, dim-witted Cocky's confidence again and again...
...ever multiplying regulations have turned the distinction between old and new into a lawyer's romper room. Complains an attorney for one of the companies: "The Government issues the regulations and leaves us to interpret them. Then the regulators sit down to decide what they meant in the first place, and they get as confused...
...famous forecast in The American Challenge a decade ago, the French publisher and pop economist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber voiced a familiar European fear: that U.S. industry, armed with a strong dollar and high technological and marketing prowess, was rapidly turning Western Europe into a sort of American commercial romper room. So much for that worry. What now seems to rouse European passions is not the threat of a Yankee invasion but the prospect of a disruptive retreat...
...captains Bob Hooft and Glenn Fine are the only seniors on the romper-room unit, and McLaughlin is counting on the sagacious vets to be expert baby-sitters in his youth campaign...