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Those were fighting words to outgoing A.B.A. president John J. Curtin Jr. Departing from protocol, Curtin stepped to the microphone to offer an impromptu rebuttal. "Anyone who believes a better day dawns when lawyers are eliminated bears the burden of explaining who will take their place," Curtin declared to cheers from the audience. "Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial discrimination and - the victims of racial violence?" Not mentioned, of course, were the corporations that provide some A.B.A. members with the bulk of their income. Quayle was allowed the final word. "Nobody...
...ironic commentary on the action. Fantasy sequences and playfully exaggerated camerawork abound. Even routine sitcoms are striving for little stylistic flourishes. NBC's American Dreamer, starring Robert Urich as a newspaper columnist raising two kids, features Our Town-style narration. Working It Out, another NBC sitcom, with Jane Curtin and Stephen Collins as divorced people who meet cute at a cooking class, chronicles the start of their relationship in flashbacks from both points of view, as they confide in their best friends...
Comic artifice is better served in a static rendering of Dorothy Parker's Dusk Before Fireworks (directed by Ken Russell, adapted by Valerie Curtin). In the giddy days of bathtub gin -- much guzzling in all three stories, by the way -- the coitus of an aging rake (Peter Weller) and a nubile flapper is rendered interruptus by untimely calls from his other women. Former teen queen Molly Ringwald delivers her lioness's share of the Parker sallies with engaging zest but seems a bit too twentysomethingly modern for a tart of the Roaring Twenties...
...permanent replacement workers, observed Peter Laarman, a spokesman for the United Auto Workers, "labor disputes often are not really about wages or benefits or working conditions, but rather about getting rid of the union altogether." That may become even easier if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Curtin Matheson Scientific in its case against the National Labor Relations Board. The Houston company is seeking to establish that an employer can reasonably assume that nonunion replacement workers, hired during a strike, oppose union representation. If the court agrees, companies may begin to kick out the unions as soon as replacement...
PHILADELPHIA--Dan Curtin sacked Bucknell quarterback Scott Auchenbach for a safety with 5:58 left to lift Penn...