Word: workers
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...occasion for missing class." That was the response of Economist Lawrence Klein, 60, last week when a reporter telephoned him asking for a comment on the news that he had just won the Nobel Prize. The University of Pennsylvania professor was cited for his contributions as "the leading research worker within the field of the economic science which deals with the construction and analysis of empirical models of business fluctuations...
Until 1960, film was primarily a representational art. Then Godard and his fellow iconoclasts suspended disbelief like a taut high wire across which his characters danced and ambled, and sometimes fell off. There are "people" in Every Man, including a TV producer named Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc), his co-worker and ex-mistress Denise (Nathalie Baye), and her friend Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), who works as a prostitute and has a short session with Paul. But they are not "real people." They are figures in the desolate landscape of Godard's mind. They have materialized to illustrate his deepest, bleakest...
They found that many inhabitants had been digging with their bare hands in the rubble, trying desperately to reach trapped victims, whose screams echoed through demolished streets. One rescue worker reported that arms and legs had to be amputated, without anesthetics, to free some people from the rubble. Groups of survivors, most of them from the city's outskirts, gathered on roadsides, waiting numbly for instructions...
...most ordinary thing in the world. After all, who isn't? Some might argue that this is the problem with the movie--ordinary problems suggest little intrinsic interest. By contrast, Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle is, to all appearances, ordinary--a cabbie who falls in love with a campaign worker--but he is intrinsically interesting because he is psychotic, and of dark aspect, and when the camera rolls the heads start to roll, too. Still, watching newsreels of Arthur Bremer would not be art; on the other side, in the hands of a genius everything is interesting, including ordinary people...
...wild cards in the edgy gulf are the large guest worker populations of Palestinians in all the gulf countries. Many among them support the Palestine Liberation Organization. Though officially neutral in the Iraq-Iran conflict because both sides have supported it against Israel, the P.L.O. is irritated at Iraq for diverting military energies away from Israel. The P.L.O is profoundly concerned about potential Western involvement in the war, and its leaders say they could bring retaliation: saboteurs are said to be standing by ready to blow up oil facilities throughout the region if the U.S. in particular were...