Word: confession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hartley Act-a sacred matter with labor. He subsequently cast many other votes that were considered antilabor. To Meany, he was an ingrate. He made no notable effort to conciliate the labor chieftain. Typically, he said that since he had made a mistake on right-to-work, Meany should confess that he had been wrong about the Viet Nam War. By convention time, Meany was mad enough to have the AFL-CIO distribute a 46-page attack on McGovern's legislative record -as if McGovern were the Republican presidential candidate. Most of the rest of big labor is following...
...Broadway Josie--Salome Jens.) Yet she interprets her role with the same sensitivity as her fellow actors construe theirs, and she is able to build a powerful and subtle tension with Currier in the scenes in which her genuine love for him is frustrated by his need to confess his drunken lascivious behavior at the time of his mother's death...
...value of the camp comes not from the subjects taught, however, but simply from the encounter with the other campers. Says Director Joseph M. Hutchison Jr., a professor at West Virginia University: "For the first time, many of the boys meet intellectual equals of their own age. Some even confess they're not as smart as they thought they were...
...case." At this point Sprague told her: "The deal's off. You aren't leveling. We're going to send you to the chair." On the eighth day, she broke, crying, her body suddenly racked with sobs, sweating profusely. "And she made a good confession," Sprague says. After that, it was easy to get Huddleston to confess that he was the conduit for a payoff from union officials. Sprague is still sniffing along the trail that he is sure leads upward into the U.M.W. hierarchy...
...cool movie, reminiscent of such Eric Rohmer films as My Night at Maud's and Claire's Knee. But where Rohmer teases the intellect, Tanner pierces the jugular. In Salamandre 's best moment, Pierre returns home, ashamed of his affair with Rosemonde and eager to confess to his wife. She listens to the whole story, nods, then nonchalantly reads Pierre a passage of supreme irrelevance from Heine. He goes back to the city to find Rosemonde. At least she is alive...