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...convulsive cough. Now 55, he is rarely out of reach of an oxygen machine. In his struggle to claim black lung disability, he is no match for Island Creek Coal Co. Perry never finished elementary school. A collector of baseball cards, he enjoys the pictures but cannot read the text. Island Creek has stoutly resisted his claims, arguing that his condition is the result not of working in the mines but rather of years of cigarette smoking. "These companies don't think nothing of you," says Perry. "If you're able to perform, you're all right...
...treaty text of more than 1,000 pages includes such details as how many trucks can transit Austria and how many cod can be taken off Norway. In general, it requires EFTA to adopt most E.C. commercial practices, paving the way for a near doubling in the Community's size by the year 2000. EFTA countries can still maintain their own farm policies. Disputes, and there surely will be some, will be adjudicated by an independent joint court...
...Marcel Marceau. And for the virtually impenetrable Finnegan's Wake, mime is the audience's salvation from a potentially tedious recitation of word-play in 37 languages. Director Catherine Fitzgerald has skillfully balanced the priority due to the written word with physical enactments that provide crucial footnotes to the text...
...Connor's selection of text seems to be centered most strongly on religion, certainly an apt focal point for any modern Irish production. The audience witnesses the young Joyce wrestling with the yoke of religion, especially as emblematized by his mother--he is willfully, brashly iconoclastic. The more mature Joyce creates Leopold Bloom, who has settled on universal love as the only acceptable doctrine...
...only thing the IAA does not want is that the scholar publish a so-called text edition, that is a transcription of the [entire] text...because that would be unfair to the scholars actually preparing a text edition...