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...million belong to the 110 increasingly disparate unions that make up his confederation. Meany used to be as grumpy with the press as a snapping turtle, but in his youthful old age he can charm Dick Cavett on late-night television by relating stories of his boyhood in The Bronx at the turn of the century. Meany has perked up the Sunday TV interview scene by calling Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve Board "a national disaster" for his tight-money policies. And he dismisses Alan Greenspan, the chief of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
...limousine. Meany rides in front -not as a gesture toward egalitarianism, but because he gets carsick if he tries to read while sitting in back. On his way home to Bethesda, Md., he usually pores over the New York Daily News, a surviving habit from his days in The Bronx, which he left almost 30 years...
Laura Quinn, fortyish, opens her suburban Boston home to Jim Cogan, 17, the son of Bronx relatives. He is awaiting arraignment in New York, charged with involvement in a lunatic guru's plot to blow up the public library. His future is on the line. If she hopes to persuade him to change, Laura realizes, she will have to put her past on the line...
...Black Picture Show, Playwright Bill Gunn's hero is already hospitalized, or rather, confined to a Bronx, New York City, mental home. Alexander (Dick Anthony Williams) has gone mad, but he has been a black poet, playwright and screenwriter of merit. Fragmented episodes indicate how he has bobbed for the white man's Golden Delicious apple and drowned in economic and psychic abasement. He is dying; perhaps he is already dead. Obfuscation ranks high among Playwright Gunn's defects...
...Hepburn, Roman Polanski and Jack Nicholson. On the slopes of Crans-Sur-Sierre, Jackie Onassis, in a snappy jacket and warmup pants, cut such a dashing figure that at one point she careered downhill and landed in a split. Son John, 14, was more conservative, preferring to give a Bronx cheer to a photographer. In Gstaad, Novice Nicholson was struggling with the subtleties of wedeling. "He loves zooming downhill," sighed Temporary Instructor Polanski. "His style is like a guy who scratches his left ear with his right hand...