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What is this Third Force he talks about? Says McCall: "I think it should be an influence on both parties, like a neon sign that comes on saying, THESE ARE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, no matter what party you belong to. These commandments would include protecting the environment, stressing energy conservation, developing a new openness in government, creating a national presidential primary and national initiatives, eliminating the seniority system in Congress, protecting consumers...
Like pickle barrels and nickel candy, the ring of grocery-store cash registers may soon belong to nostalgia. In its place will come the soft whir and occasional beeping of electronic equipment. Seven large supermarket chains in the U.S. are quietly testing an automated pricing and check-out system that can "read" coded prices on each item, tot up the bill and do nearly everything but pack the groceries in a bag. Advocates of the system, who describe it as the biggest advance in retailing since the tin can, say that it promises big savings in both shopping time...
...greatest honors belong to the two leads. Kevin Conway informs his character with contemporary insights. His blustery tantrums never quite conceal a fear of isolation that only Lennie's undemanding presence can assuage. James Earl Jones gives the most restrained and, paradoxically, the most forceful performance of his career as Lennie. Lolling, dribbling, crushing the life out of what he loves, Jones gives his burdened oaf a soul that more than compensates for his damaged mind...
Whether they belong to begrimed children in Pennsylvania coal mines, languid prostitutes in the New Orleans redlight district, or impassive Navajos on horseback in the Southwest, they collapse the distinction between then...
...city. What's happened in Boston in the last few months is a chapter in a long history of racial struggle in the United States, but it's also a chapter in a long history of class struggle among white New Englanders. In this latter history, people's sympathies belong with the working people of South Boston, whose distrust for well-off suburban liberals is entirely justified--even though it ignores the far greater social engineering that prompted Garrity's order, the School Committee's purposeful segregation of Boston's schools through construction and zoning plans over the years...