Word: downs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McGuane is alert to revealing parallels between the art of cutting cattle and the craft of writing novels. "You cannot work cattle by force," he explains. "A cutting horse separates a cow from the herd through a kind of choreographic countermovement. It's very much like fiction: you can't...
Perhaps its most remarkable attainment is that the premise and structure, which sound inordinately egghead when described, are easy to grasp in performance. The action begins with the detective (James Naughton), a rumpled knight of the tenderloin who lives by a code of honor in a world of thugs and...
California Congressman Jim Bates, who asked for a congressional hearing in San Diego last week, says the service fosters "unnecessary intimidation by supervisors . . . encouraged by upper management." Workers complain of being shadowed by foremen toting stopwatches, warned "not to take little baby steps" while moving around, and denied permission to...
Once a backwater of the Federal Government, the Post Office Department was reorganized in 1970 as a semiprivate, quasi-military company called the U.S. Postal Service. With 825,000 employees, it has more troops than the U.S. Army. But pressure is growing from the public as the price of stamps...
The nightmare of the new automation is the optical character reader, which shoots out 30,000 pieces of mail an hour and shows no mercy. A postal clerk has about a second to read an address and punch in the first three digits of the ZIP code, which is then...