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...cannot. People are hungry: food is rationed, but there is almost none to buy. Factories are shut: there is no fuel to run machines, no raw materials to process. Harvests rot in the fields for want of distribution. We see no cars and few buses on the broad boulevards; people travel by bicycle, horse and buggy, or crammed aboard the occasional flatbed truck. There are swizzle sticks but no soap; no toilet paper, no plain paper either. By day a pall of smoke hangs over the city: the government, desperate to limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent...
...first place, because $7.50 is the average cost per dinner for the entire operation--not the marginal cost of producing one more dinner. The $1.50 donated is probably a better estimate of the amount saved by one student's not partaking that evening. Why the large discrepancy? Simple--raw food is cheap, labor is expensive. HUDS cannot, nor should it, lay off members of its dining hall staff for that evening. Hence, 4/5 of the cost of a meal is being paid in wages, regardless of whether a student actually eats it. Only 1/5, $1.50, remains to be donated...
...therag industry in the mid-1970's: Cambridge waterrates rose, making high-volume washingeconomically unfeasible. Many of the smokestackindustries who were buying the rags shut down ormoved to Mexico, and to top it off, a 1973 fire inChelsea obliterated many of the businesses whichhad supplied the company with its raw materials...
...then the passion? Partly because in a recovery that has left many Americans still fearing layoffs -- or fearing they will never be recalled from layoffs -- any further threat to employment, real or fancied, hits a raw nerve. That effect is aggravated because the workers who might lose out to low-wage Mexican competition know who they are, or think they do, while the 12 additional people who might be hired next year by a computer maker to put together more PCs for export to Mexico have no idea that might happen. Then too, there is a vague feeling that...
Despite a decidedly cheesy plot-line, the production is no less than stunning. An ever-shifting pace, special effects, and raw intensity keep the film humming. "Fearless" highlights Max's fundamental isolation through silent, close-up slow-motion shots of him ponderously feeling his naked body and relishing strawberries, and loud, fast-paced cuts to the crash. The style and mood of each scene contrasts with the next, and the overall effect of this roller-coaster ride is admittedly intense. By the long, drawn-out ending, however, the audience is exhausted and out of sympathy for Max's long overdue...