Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Jewish colleagues were ostracized, although his own music was denounced by the Nazis as ''cultural Bolshevism,''Webern stuck it out in Austria, transfixed by the ideal of a triumphant German culture. This decision led indirectly to his bizarre death in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. Visiting his son-in-law in the town of Mittersill, he was somehow shot during a botched black-market raid being carried out by American G.I.s...
...three-year wage pact than those recently signed with General Motors and Ford. The company will save about $200 million by deferring payments into its pension plan next year and a further $203 million over the next two years by delaying some wage raises and benefit improvements. By the end of the three years, however, Chrysler workers will be earning the same as GM and Ford employees, and the industry's hourly labor costs-wages, fringe benefits and pensions-will have jumped about one-third...
...year-old effort to film the entire Bible for educational purposes (Heyman has also filmed most of Genesis). He hopes that the proceeds from theater and TV showings of Jesus and future spin-offs will allow him to complete his project, which has already cost $22.5 million, before the end of the century...
Management emerged from the rancorous showdown with significant manning reductions (an estimated 600 of 4,300 employees will be phased out), the right to introduce some laborsaving new technology, and a promised end to unauthorized work stoppages. Production was interrupted 74 times in 1978 alone, costing the papers $5.6 million. In return, the unions were given generous severance payments (an average of $26,000 per worker), better wages (up between 20% and 45% over two years), an extra week's vacation (for a total of six) and substantially improved pension and sick-pay formulas...
...direction generally accentuates the script's failings. Though Huyck cuts frantically among his stories, he tuckers out the audience without ever accelerating the film. The elaborate finale, involving a chaotic end-of-term school play, does not achieve its intended purpose of ty ing all the plot lines into a bittersweet cli max. What is missing is Lucas' fluent visual language. In cinematic terms, French Postcards sadly proves to be not so much American Graffiti as fractured Franglais. Rich