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...Russia. Japan no doubt will participate, but how much of the tab -- possibly $30 billion -- it can be encouraged to pick up is questionable. Even aside from its unresolved dispute with Moscow about the Kurile Islands, Tokyo has viewed funds poured into the chaotic Russian economy as money thrown away...
...says about writers who sell their books to the movies: "You bought the ticket, and you have to take the ride." Tobias grumbles only a bit. He doesn't think much of Getchell's script, which seems to him "a little banal and sitcomish, with a few cheap thrills thrown in." He objects to a rough sex scene between Robert De Niro, who plays the churlish stepfather Dwight, and Ellen Barkin, who plays the mother Caroline. (The Wolff brothers' mother is Rosemary in real life.) Tobias believes the sex scene breaks the film's point of view, since otherwise...
...credits, which create a debt Russia can't service. All the industrialized nations would have to ante up (the U.S. share could be as little as $2 billion), and most of the money would go for a safety net that would provide unemployment insurance and similar assistance for those thrown out of work as the economy righted itself. Strict conditions would apply, but they would phase in as monetary reform is accomplished, not afterward, a crucial change from current practice...
Slapdash pleas are sometimes less brutal than the farcical trials that can result when ill-prepared lawyers are thrown in over their heads. In 1983 a man named Victor Roberts and an accomplice stole a car and drove to an Atlanta suburb hunting for a house to burglarize. Posing as insurance salesmen, they entered the home of Mary Jo Jenkins. A skirmish ensued and a gun went off, shooting Jenkins through the heart. H. Geoffrey Slade, a lawyer for 13 years, was assigned to handle the capital case. When he realized he was in over his head and requested...
...subject matter may sound trite, but the play itself astounds with constant wit and poignancy. The intensity of the action, with just four characters thrown together in a cramped Manhattan apartment, accentuates the emotional desert which these characters inhabit. The hysterically funny but caustic dialogue undercuts any romanticism in the relationships portrayed. Burn This propounds a pessimistic vision of human nature...