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Some of the trade is also two-way: many Westerners buy up dirt-cheap satellite currency at home and smuggle it into the East to buy the satellites' few quality products, such as Hungarian salami or Prague glassware, then take them back West. But the more standard practice is for travelers from Eastern Europe to finance their trips by bringing back Western goods. Nylons from the U.S. will bring $5 or $6 in Warsaw. Professional Polish operators regularly swing far bigger deals. Gangs travel two or three times a week to the Baltic port of Gdynia, where they...
...kitchen, whose walls Barbra has covered with red patent leather. She neither drinks nor smokes, but she eats like a woman thrice her weight, which is 125 Ibs. The kitchen is a self-service delicatessen heavily stocked with matzo brie, gefilte fish, grapefruit wedges, kosher salami, pickled beets, tzimmes, caviar, corn fritters, brownies, ice-cream rolls, cottage cheese, sweet potatoes, and enough frozen chicken TV dinners to pave the Piazza San Marco...
...plot is as thin as a very thin slice of salami (which could easily have been a line in this play). David Kolowitz, though working at Mr. Foreman's machine shop wants to be an actor. His friend Marvin shows him an ad for actors in the New York Post and David quits work early to head for the illegitimate theatre. There he is stunned by the leading lady's asset, her body, but not so completely that he doesn't come back in the end to his girl-friend Wanda, nor enroll in pharamacy school as his parents have...
...Salami for Rubbernecks. Even to shuttle summer traffic through the country, Liechtenstein grudgingly has to double its police force, which consists normally of 18 men and a dog named Rex. The well-named Quick Tourist Office concentrates its energies on selling visitors Swiss watches, Belgian francs and Liechtenstein cuckoo clocks, which are made in West Germany. Since the country's medieval castles bear signs saying "No Castle Visiting," insistent rubbernecks usually get to see the salami skin factory or else one of two plants where strikingly healthy Liechtensteiners turn out false teeth and artificial limbs for world markets...
Finally Muscari promises the priest he will not die for the sins of the townspeople if one of them will admit the crime for which Muscari has accepted the blame. This never happens, and Muscari goes to his death. The local grocer sells salami and seat cushions to spectators at the execution...