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...computer overload, but even worse, say the owners, is that the plan amounts to paying players like pieceworkers in a ball-bearing factory. Says the N.F.L.'s chief negotiator, Jack Donlan: "The idea of the union distributing wages, becoming in effect partners of the owners', is alien to American business." It is certainly alien to the way the N.F.L. has done business. The owners propose to continue their pattern of negotiating individual contracts, but promise that a lot more money will be paid out when all those contracts are added up. They have offered a sweetener: retroactive individual...
...Hogan-NCPAC connection has itself become a hot campaign issue that plays right into Sarbanes's hands. Every time Hogan picks up another conservative PAC endorsement or appears on a NCPAC TV spot. Sarbanes charge that Hogan is a shill for alien manipulators gain credibility. In addition, Hogan's tilt to the New Right links him with President Reagan. That's good news for Sarbanes, too, because like people in many other hard-pressed states. Marylanders increasingly blame Reagan for high unemployment. Sarbanes's spokesman Bruce Frame notes that the top campaign issues are "jobs, jobs, and jobs," and says...
...earth. He was innocent, wise and altogether gentle, but just about everyone who knew he had landed misunderstood him and conspired to get rid of him. Only a few young people saw his true benevolence, and they and the creature became inseparable. In return for their faith, the alien established a strange and powerful bond with his earthling disciples: they suffered together--even when they were miles apart--and he healed their wounds with a touch of his other-worldly finger...
...heavens to point at a human finger reaching up from the earth. Remind you of any famous creation scenes on chapel ceilings? One wonders: since E. T. 's last-minute Easter-like recovery conveniently leaves the door open for a sequel, can we expect to see the little alien in his next adventure merrily waddling along the surface of some suburban swimming pool, or turning Elliot's bedtime glass of water into something with a little more punch...
...scientists in "E. T." are cast in the most insidious roles of all. For most of the movie, they are shown only as disembodied legs, striding conspiratorially about as they seek out the little alien. When they arrive at Elliot's house, marching en masse in their spacesuits, it is nothing less than an enemy invasion. And it is in their custody that E. T. suffers his near-fatal relapse--they do not realize, as the movie's three children do, that what ails the creature is a deep-felt need to communicate with his home-star...