Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cabaret. with Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Michael York. Another movie about German decadence, but this one plays cleaner than most. Which isn't saying much. Its Germans are on the whole a piggish disreputable bunch. There is your bisexual decaying aristocrat, your mother loving young men, the soldiers who seem to like each other better than the women. Joel Grey is terrific, and Minelli's "Money, Money" would make just about anything worthwhile. Cinema Kenmore Square...
...runs a down-home operation with a bunch of good old boys on his committee. There's a war veteran with an arm missing and a camera bug and an Ivy Leaguer and a fellow who used to cure country hams. There is some courtliness, a little cussing beyond earshot, some poetry, and a lot of Bible...
...Teamsters are now importing scab labor (many of whom arrive not knowing they are strike-breakers and who are coerced to keep working by the Teamsters' inelegant persuasions!). The bitter fruit of this labor is now arriving at stores in your neighborhood. If these grapes sell, the next bunch of growers with UFW contracts to renew (in July) will follow the lead of their Coachella peers and invite the Teamsters to "organize" the fields on their terms i.e., a lower hourly wage; no restriction on the use of condemned sprays; reinstitution of the slave-labor contractor system (shades...
...reporters represent? Who elected you to anything?" The same biting attitude could be aimed at Congressmen-that "bunch of clowns," Ehrlichman once called them. And even the President's own Cabinet was denigrated as taking up Nixon's valuable time with "their show-and-tell sessions...
...touch again soon. Meantime, I'm sending along three copies of the sound-track album and a bunch of posters. Superstar is really flip city...