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...this moment has come upon us. Now there's automation, we have the computer. This applies to white collar as well as blue, of course. The bank teller, she's wondering about her work: Is it that important? Remember the marvelous fireman at the end of the book, Tommy Patrick...
...been long since Superpatriot John Wayne, 66, recorded a pep talk for his countrymen called America, Why I Love Her. Among the numbers was The Good Things, a panegyric to the mundane virtues of American life: "A fireman who climbs a tree and sets a little kitten free," and, of course, the "men who love their wives." It turns out that Wayne's memory of the good things is faulty. His third wife Pilar, 45, will not, after all, be the girl with whom he rides into the sunset, because after 19 years of marriage and three children...
SOUTH HOUSE FESTIVAL OF CZECHOSLOVAK FILMS: HILLES CINEMA, The Shop on Main Street, (Jan Kadar), The Cowards (Jiri Weiss) Nov. 30, at 7:30, $2, Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman) Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer), Dec. 1, at 7:30, $2, films introduced by A. J. Liehm. Czech film critic, and discussed by the directors, The Joke (Jaromil Jires), Daisies (Vera Chytilova), Dec. 2, at 7:30, $2, series ticket...
Milos Forman, who made Fireman's Ball, is often used as an example of a Czechoslovak director being influenced by the French New Wave, but it is likely that he was more influenced by the rich body of literature produced in Czechoslovakia during the early...
...alienate these two large unions by refusing their requests, and since the city's tax rate is primarily a function of municipal employee salaries, the Cambridge tax rate skyrocketed as those salaries jumped almost 70 per cent in six years. "This year," Moncreiff says, "we told the police and fireman that we wouldn't approve any increase unless it was first approved by the manager--we've set a precedent." It requires a two-thirds vote by the nine-member Council to establish salaries by ordinance, so Moncreiff is hopeful that there will continue to be a least four councilors...