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...Coal Board. Hundreds more are returning every day. "Follow me on the road to sanity," urged John Cunningham, a longtime local officer of the N.U.M. in Northumberland, as he went back to work on Nov. 19, one of 2,282 to do so that day. "These strike leaders are hell-bent on destruction...
...other news, the Boston Globe recently reported that the gap between Black and white infant mortality rates has widened, with the rate for Blacks lingering at the level found in many underdeveloped countries. This has a great deal to do with malnutrition and poverty, which the government is hell-bent on increasing by cutting back Food Stamps and other programs. On the question of unemployment, National Public Radio, like many other media outlets, a couple of weeks ago echoed the latest self-congratulations of the government, chirping happily about the "good economic news" that unemployment dropped slightly. A little later...
...replaying his heart attack in Live in Concert (1979) and building a hilarious routine out of his near fatal experiment free-basing heroin in Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), Pryor is here to tell you he has been off alcohol and hard drugs for seven months. Given his hell-bent lifestyle, that amounts to total conversion...
...Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. In London in 1980 and a year later on Broadway, David Edgar's 8½hour adaptation of the Dickens novel met with a rapturous reception. In a time when many serious playwrights are hell-bent on reducing life's dilemmas to their sparest parts, panhandling for quiddity, Edgar and Directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird served up a copious celebration of life in all its wickedness and wonder. Led by Roger Rees as the callow, rigorous hero, 39 R.S.C. actors played 150 parts...
...perceived. CBS erred the other way. The hyperkinetic Rather, who had stoked up on spaghetti for energy, seemed infatuated with homey metaphors ("as long as a well rope") and cutesy topical imagery ("E.T., phone home: [New Mexico Senator and Former Astronaut] Jack Schmitt needs help"). Above all, he appeared hell-bent on spotting a Democratic trend. For Republicans, he said, "it certainly doesn't look good. No way to make it look good." White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl shared his view. Soon after 7 p.m. E.S.T., she announced flatly, "It is a Democratic year." After Reporter Bruce Morton miscalled...