Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pittsburgh's Benjamin Woods, 34, works as business agent of Local 12, Sheet Metal Workers, but now he labors several hours a day for Jackson. "I get tired," he says, "of seeing the same guys getting elected to the same jobs all the time. All they do is go down there and wheel and deal." He met Jackson last June, liked him and circulated petitions in February to get on the ballot as a pledged candidate. "I agree with Jackson about nationalizing welfare. He has a fine labor record. And he's against busing...
...deal engineered by-of all people-a fan who took the negotiating authority upon himself. With one stroke of the pen, the moribund Braves had a bright new look. The signee was a handsome, 30-year-old, bubble-gum-chewing pitcher named Andy Messersmith, a free spirit and free agent whose victorious legal battle against baseball's "reserve clause" was reshaping the entire sport...
Labor, State, Commerce are there. Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is on hand, fingertips together, eyes on the ceiling. So is Jim Lynn, head of the Office of Management and Budget. Ford's special agent at these sessions is his economic assistant, L. William Seidman, fresh from his morning 1 %mile jog in Dumbarton Oaks Park. Other Cabinet officers and bureaucrats move in and out according to subject...
...starts by passing around for mutual approbation photos of his dead fiancee. As a catalytic agent full of "power of positive thinking" jargon, he soon reduces everyone either to tears or hysterics. Unwittingly, he unmasks torpedoed marriages, a joyless adulteress (Cheryl Kennedy), blasted careers, lacecurtain carnage. When Colin, played with demonic dexterity by Richard Briers, finally leaves, one of the survivors utters a suburban epitaph: "Nice to sit with your friends now and again. Nice...
...with this bunch of bores, the latter for never finding some visually interesting way to cut through the excessively intricate plot After a lot of witless blather, it turns out that Bronson was only pretending to be a baddie - big surprise! - that he is really a federal agent in disguise. Naturally it also turns out that just about everyone left alive in that plush car when the Indians finally get around to attacking is in on a scheme to grab some min eral wealth they are not entitled to. A dose of mineral water is what this congested movie needs...