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In simpler times, most Christians felt bound by St. Paul's admonition (in I Corinthians 6) to "suffer yourselves to be defrauded" rather than take a fellow church member to court. That dictum has long been widely ignored. Now, litigious Americans are going even one step further: they are...
SOMEWHERE IN THE FILMING of Raging Bull, though, Jake LaMotta disappeared--literally, he was kicked off the set, but in another sense, the real LaMotta didn't fit Scorsese's purpose. Raging Bull is about a parochial way of life, the mores of Italians moving up in the Bronx after...
THE AMERICAN PHONY always gives himself away by his colour. There are other hints, of course--Dunhill cigarettes, references to "Bianca" in conversation, upraised sport-jacket collars, to name only a few--but the single guaranteed, dead-to-rights giveaway of pretension and affectation beyond bounds of normal tolerance is...
Outside, some Clevelanders yanked their collars up against the wind and chose to ignore the goings-on. "What's the big deal about a debate?" one woman asked as she caught the bus home to the nearby suburb of Lakewood. "After all, it's still Reagan and Carter who were...
White collars start to join the blue ones in union ranks 11 my life I've been antiunion. I always felt professionals could look after themselves. But with today's economic and social problems, organizing is the best way to protect what we have." So says Joe Williford...