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...Carter ain't going to get nothing." In an earnest 20-minute speech, Carter diplomatically stopped short of asking Big Labor for a public endorsement of his voluntary wage guidelines, which seek to hold wage hikes below the 7.5% average of the past two years, but he did ask for general support for wage restraint without guidelines-if prices ease...
...Steiger, the quality of whose "evidence" is matched only by the quality of his overblown, obnoxious performance. You can't really blame the hairpiece-clad Andrew Madison (Andrew Madison??), however, for lighting into a union with the provocative name of F.I.S.T., can you? When Kovak exhorts the men: "It ain't a bunch of letters like any other union. It says fist. One fist! That's what we are!" they respond with a spontaneous display of extended fists which make the proceedings resemble nothing more than a Hitler youth rally...
LINES OF MARCHERS are forming now, eight-abreast. "Milwaukee just arrived with ten more buses. We're 25,000 now, 30,000." The organizer exaggerates, you know he exaggerates. The sound of rhythmic African drums fills the air, and you are perfectly happy to exaggerate along with him--"Ain't we pretty! Ain't we nice...
...aren't a cop, you should step right in, maybe dance a little to the strains of Gil-Scot Heron before the organizers begin assembling the ranks. "New York just arrived in 103 buses," says a pre-march speaker. "There's 20,000 of us here now! Ain't we nice...
...Hero Ain't Nothing but a Sandwich tells the story of a black 13-year-old growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto. While the story explores the various intricacies of this environment (the roof-tops, the asphalt basketball courts and the classrooms), it is primarily a study of the relationship that builds between the boy, Benji (played by Larry Scott) and his stepfather, Butler (Paul Winfield...