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...closing scenes of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Le Mépris,” Camille—played by the iconic sixties starlet Brigitte Bardot—abandons her husband for the narcissistic, almost ghoulish American film producer Jeremy Prokosch, played by Jack Palance. Bardot, in a wide-brimmed hat and large black sunglasses that recall Jackie Kennedy, displays a cold yet alluring ambivalence toward her piggish new lover. They exchange brief words, casual affections, but barely understand one another—Bardot’s character speaks no English, Palance’s hardly...
According to one of the organizers of the march, Michael Prokosch '70, the goal of the protest was to put pressure on garment makers to "open up their factories to genuine independent inspection [of working conditions...
...Until now, there was only one garment company that has set up an independent monitoring program, and that's The Gap," said Prokosch, who is the national program director for Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). "Other companies, specifically Guess? and NIKE, have set up self-monitoring programs which are a mockery...
...Sweatshops's aren't just abroad, they're in this country," Prokosch said. "Fifty percent of the garment factories in the United States are sweatshops...
...this can be applied is shown by Mike Prokosch '70 in his review of a recent film which particularly begs for the treatment because it is "revolutionary" in its pretensions. The review was called," Another Counter Revolutionary Film Bites the Dust...