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Over his desk, Denenberg has placed the Latin motto Populus iamdudum defutatus est, which he translates as "The consumer has been screwed long enough." To help beleaguered buyers, Denenberg has ordered all the 1,157 insurance companies that do business in Pennsylvania to appoint ombudsmen to hear consumer complaints. He...
"Honker" is rodeo slang that freely translates either as "dangerous bull" (the animal, not the conversational variety) or as a particularly accommodating woman. Examples of each species are at large in The Honkers, and they cause no end of mischief. Whether of the two-or four-legged variety, they have...
GUY fulfills as totally as possible his vision of Brel as a cabaret piece with its type of audience involvement. "I feel I'm inviting the audience to see it. I can't see charging people for anything that's not perfect." This translates into a multitude of minor amenities...
BY VIRTUE of a second irony, namely the large assortment of investment opportunities offered by the (capitalist) capital market in response to the variety of investor tastes, it is possible to make an important generalization: the financial equivalent of any morally objectionable stock can be found. Given a statistical description...
That experience would not have seemed at all remarkable to members of the international fraternity of hobos, who have worked out 40 or 50 graphic hints that they chalk up on fences or walls to guide those who come after them. The cat, for example, conveys the welcome news that...