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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might say, there are three basic paths, as I see it, which collective bargaining is following. The normal hard-boiled adversarial collective bargaining which takes place over wages, benefits, working conditions, etc., is going to continue. We'll be in negotiation with GM in July, and we're going to fight like tigers for a good contract. And we may have a strike. Who knows? Simultaneously, there are certain programs that we have to fight very hard to get management to agree to. But once they have agreed, we establish joint, co-operative means of implementing them, like health...
...write amusing dialogue, but the jokes rarely have anything to do with the characters, and most of the "meaningful" lines are slick and stilted: "You drink to be more than yourself, but it only makes you so much less than you are," "I don't know how to love," etc. The play never casts light or the writing of Sinclair Lewis, and the characters are not sufficiently human or interesting enough to survive without the glamorous names. There's nothing inherently "dramatic" in Strangers except that the two leading characters talk a lot and the rapid flow of scenes...
...mobile to make Dern a great stage actor, but Yellen's writing, for all its superficial energy, never allows him to take off. Yellen's Sinclair Lewis is so completely within Dern's range that apart from the physical demands of stage acting--the need for unbroken concentration, projection, etc.--this could be almost a vacation...
...heterosexual struggling to remain rational while attempting to understand homosexuality, I commend John Leo's Essay. Certainly homosexuals deserve fair treatment, but as a fellow human being I reserve the right to tolerate any expression, belief, lifestyle, etc., without being required to endorse...
...Longtime Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa was still missing; foul play was suspected. The feds were investigating the union's pension funds for financial, uh, irregularities (like loans to mobsters, unsecured loans to friends, etc.). The biggest labor union in the United States. Bang...