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...union will demand a cost-of-living increase of more than 8 per cent, John A. Polimeno, secretary-treasurer of the union, said yesterday...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Local 300 Presents Contract Demands | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard students are watching, it means everyone is watching," she said. "It the future leaders of America are watching, what does it mean for society in the 1980s?" she added. About 20 to 20 million people--20 per cent of them males--watch soap operas in the United States, Witty said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Speak About Soaps | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...Nicholas Meyer, the author with a penchant for pairing Victorian celebrities who never could have met. In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, he allied the fictional Sherlock Holmes with the actual Sigmund Freud; in his new film Time After Time, he teams the above-mentioned Ripper and H.G. Wells. Meyer has both written and directed this time, with a happy result: the movie deftly balances equal portions of comedy and suspense...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Ripping Good Time | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Dead Solid Texas | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...suspense. It also makes a worthwhile if not highly original point, stated most clearly by Warner as he flips from one violent image to another on television: "Ninety years ago I was a freak; today I'm an amateur." For Meyer, author of the bestselling The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, it is a promising and interesting directorial debut, requiring a deftness that has eluded more experienced moviemakers. We are in his debt for a bold idea skippingly brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stolen Hours | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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