Word: outcasts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Rameau's Nephew is ostensibly the record of a conversation between two characters, I (Jeremy Geidt) and He (Tony Shalhoub), at the Cafe de la Regence in Paris. I is a philosopher who spends hours "observing all, talking to none," at his favorite haunts. He is the outcast nephew of the celebrated French composer Jean Philippe Rameau. Their verbal duel can either be interpreted as a disagreement of lifestyles between two people or as a vocalized internal struggle within an ambiguous individual...
...tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain, and every villain has at least a shank, a homemade knife. Black and Aryan gangs feud murderously. Studs and lovers brutalize each other. And Joe, of course, misses Kitty Litter, his stripper girlfriend. But he is an outcast, and jail is where, when you go there, they have to take...
...waged. Supremely pragmatic, Jieu Jieu never bought Chairman Mao's line that the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s would instantly catapult China into the ranks of industrialized countries. On the other hand, Lord broods over the dilemma of an elderly scholar whose Western education made him an outcast in a society that he resentfully characterizes as "of the peasant, by the peasant and for the peasant...
...Drexel's outcast employees have company in their misery. The firm's crack-up comes amid a flurry of reversals for the highflyers who symbolized the boom time. Last month Peter Cohen stepped down as chairman of Shearson Lehman Hutton, the firm he had built into a Wall Street giant that ranked second only to Merrill Lynch. Like so much that flourished during the hothouse decade, Shearson simply grew too fast. Beset by falling revenues, failing deals and internal disputes, Cohen was forced out by James Robinson III, the chairman of American Express, Shearson's parent company...