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...slackening demand led retailers to lower prices about 7% from last September's highs, and also to cut back orders from meat-packing houses. Although retail prices are rebounding, orders to packers are still down, and the packers are paying less to feed-lot operators for ready-to-butcher cattle...
...toughness but bridles at comparison with the semiliterate moguls of old. "My kicks come from power, but I'm a good person at heart. I read 40 scripts a week as well as several books. Do I have creative pretensions? Yes, indeed! So does my wife's butcher." But he adds to a reporter, "The last thing I want is some son-of-a-bitch like you wondering whether I care about costumes for a production. I do care. I do get involved. I'm a sensitive, well-read person...
THIS has every intention of being a with-it movie. Francoise is the femme libre--twice married and twice divorced, unfettered and irreligious, a businesswoman with wile and culture. She lives alone and sleeps around to keep herself sexually vital; she talks tough, sizing her men like a butcher does his meat. And she wonders what it is to be a woman. Then this so modern woman involves herself in a romance made of nineteenth-century novels's stuff. She's got 'seventies style, but it must be all facejob. The woman inside launches way, unfashionably back...
Zindel's written a strong script that fights any attempt to butcher it. His man-in-the-moon marigolds are the subject of an award-winning science project built by Tillie, Beatrice's half-test tube. In the life that Beatrice leads in an old vegetable store with her daughters, the other an epileptic, and a senile, decayed nanny, the marigolds, for the first time, make her proud. Zindel skillfully draws a portrait of Beatrice's shattered life, of epileptic Ruth's rebellion and Tillie's strength in her world of scientific experiments--and the tightrope walk of their dependence...
Patrick E. Gorman, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America; David Selden, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Victor Reuther, former international-affairs director of the United Automobile Workers; Irving Howe, editor of Dissent magazine; and historian Christopher Lasch were among those who signed the appeal for a convention...