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...lavish setting ever created for Puccini's tale. (The production, which PBS is televising nationally this Wednesday on Live from the Met, surpasses in opulence even Zeffirelli's famous La Scala staging of 1963. In the second act, it seems that tout Paris is milling about the Café Momus...
After four weeks of martial law, the initial shock has worn off, but the reality of what has happened is finally sinking in. Warsaw has been transformed from one of the liveliest cities in Europe to one of the dullest and most depressing. The theaters are closed, the cafés usually empty and the streets practically devoid of traffic after dark. But worse than these obvious signs is the apparent death of the spirit. Poland is a nation of individuals. The most ordinary worker wears his cap just so and has his own look. Now, when you walk through...
...plummeted, Poles bought almost anything they could find. The reason was simple enough. One man's expendable Chinese rug might turn out to be another man's treasure. The result: a primitive system of barter. A cab driver with a can of oil could trade with a café manager for a pound of coffee. A pair of leather boots would get a sack of potatoes, and a bottle of vodka was pure gold. A Warsaw schoolteacher marveled when one enterprising boy in her class announced that he was willing to trade girl's boots that...
...five sisters who run the family's fashions, furs and luggage firm, predicts that sales will be up 20% over last December led by bestsellers "with the style and flair," like gold lace blouses $600 apiece. Gucci has leather jeans at $500 a pair, while Doney's café on the Via Veneto is finding buyers for a $100 wicker basket holding only a bottle of champagne, a toy dog and a small package of chocolates...
Between combat jobs, the mercenaries are photographers, actors, accountants and farmers. They practice unarmed combat, play war games on the weekends and hang around certain cafés and bars of southern Africa and Western Europe waiting for contracts through the grapevine. A typical hangout in Brussels advertises "Simba, the beer of Katanga. " Inside, empty cartridges are lined above the counter and photos of mercenaries cover the walls...