Word: butchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From his shop, Butcher Mike Arendt looked out across Main Street to the aging building that serves as headquarters for the town's striking teachers. Then he lowered his voice and measured his words carefully: "If it's not settled soon, the townspeople are getting ready to take things into their own hands...
...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...