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...standards as "I'm Waiting for the Man," "Heroin," and "Rock and Roll" from his days with The Velvet Underground. Reed's vocals, which were even more Dylanesque than usual, were accompanied by queenly dancing, spasmodic convulsions, and hesitant twirlings of the microphone. Highlighting his stage show was the random interjection of obscenities often followed by the violent felling of the microphone stand, which actually constituted one of the lighter sides of the concert. Whenever the mike stand came crashing to the ground, an obedient roadie would diligently high-tail it across the stage in order to reset...
...Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that most fragmented experience: war. Here are just a few of the details of just one air drop, seen like a close-up of a Flemish tapestry: A paratrooper lands on a partridge and carries...
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THERE are lessons to be gained from this film. That the city is a barbaric place, that we are all hostage to a population of capricious adventurists, and that the random slaying of muggers by a "vigilante" will drastically reduce the rate of assaults (in this case, from over 900, to 470 a week). And this movie is tremendously powerful, for it clumsily taps a vein of paranoia in its audience so that its audience accepts those reactionary premises and explodes with applause every time Paul fires...
...last as long as 24 months and cost up to $50,000. It usually begins with a thorough search through women's personnel records for patterns of discrimination in such areas as salary and lines of advancement, and continues through interviews with top executives, middle managers and a random sample of female employees. Then Boyle, Kirkman or one of the firm's five consultants (all women) present recommendations to top management. One startling example of bias that they turned up: Kirkman, reviewing the records of 300 women employed by a major oil company, found that all had supposedly...