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...threatened to go into bankruptcy. When he needed pay cuts and the union protested, he warned that he would shut plants. When Chrysler could not pay its bills, he persuaded suppliers to be patient. It now seems a plausible bet?not yet even money but not 100 to 1 either???that lacocca's company will survive as No. 3 against its behemoth competitors, General Motors and Ford, and occasionally even threaten them. Of course, the tougher battle is the one that all U.S. carmakers are in together: turning back the competition from Japanese and other foreign automobile companies, who drove...
...than a dozen pictures apiece, a couple of strong film characters, American arche types. Nowadays this is a rarer and perhaps more valuable achievement than making a string of perfect movie master pieces. These heroes?larger than ones found in ordinary life, but not entirely dis connected from it either???are not made in a single film. They grow out of a lot movies and eventually turn them all into mere incidents in the larger and more absorbing drama of the star career. Consider Eastwood's moralistic killer, whose cold eyes are set off by his incongruously boyish voice...
...shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either???he ends up thin, almost hairless and without a tail...
...thoroughly Socialist M. P.'s began to talk as though they would support Sir Oswald. He prepared a motion (practically a vote of censure against Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden) for submission to a "private Party meeting" of all Labor M. P.'s. There was talk? and not loose talk either???that the Government's slim majority in the House of Commons had been whittled down to the snapping point...
...Significance. A solid, truthful portrayal of American life in a town that is neither Gopher Prarie nor Zenith but just as typical as either??? written without shrieking or melo-dramatics?native as Dakota wheat...
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