Word: goliaths
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...story, drawn from a real event in pre-World War I Britain, involves Ronnie (David Haller), a naval cadet who has been expelled for supposedly stealing a five-shilling money order. Convinced that his son is innocent, Arthur Winslow (Ralph Clanton) launches a David-vs.-Goliath struggle against the powers that be. Thanks to a top barrister (Remak Ramsay) whose icy hauteur masks a passion for justice, the boy's name is cleared, but the economic and emotional costs are high, especially for Winslow's daughter Catherine, who loses her fiancé. The strikingly attractive Giulia Pagano makes...
David slaying Goliath, the Greeks at Thermoplylae, the American Revolution, the Six-Day War, the Miracle Mets, and now chalk up one more to the underdogs: The Game...
...David and Goliath battle is shaping up in the Boston financial world...
...into the Bible. Instead he meets a fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should not be ignored: for He brought upon this production a plague of unfunny punch lines and lackluster performances. There are a couple of droll sight gags (Goliath's oversize undershorts hanging...
LOVING YOUR ENEMY is no problem--but financing him is something else entirely. This is the revelation dawning on the anemic Goliath Big Labor as it squares off against Goliath Business in a drawn-out tussle over turf. While corporations move their facilities into Sunbelt territories where unions do not flourish, labor is making tentative approaches toward asserting its authority over pension investments, once the exclusive domain of management. Pension funds may turn out to be just the resource labor needs in its declining years...