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...cheerfully neurotic comedy; its mordant wit in the face of death is yet another index of a gay aesthetic. The producers have shrewdly emphasized the show's celebration of families of all kinds in testimonial ads touting it as fit for rabbis and priests, Midwestern tourists and suburban firemen. Having long since turned a profit on Broadway, Falsettos has launched a once unimaginable tour...
...PAIR OF WHITE ARKANSAS FIREMEN (Bill Paxton and William Sadler) accidentally come upon a treasure map. Its X marks a spot in a creepy, abandoned factory. As they root in the floorboards for gold, a gang of black drug dealers, whose leaders are played by rappers Ice-T and Ice Cube, turn up to use the place for a murder. Race, greed and venality on all sides soon lead to deadly conflict. There's something bracing about the utter amorality of TRESPASS. Director Walter Hill has something like a genius for staging and editing action in jolting bursts. The movie...
Within hours, in a cold rain, 800 firemen and policemen were searching the blackened ruins in shifts. "It's hard to keep our eyes dry," said fire fighter Gerard Jurgens. "We find children's toys almost intact, and then suddenly we discover a part of what was a human being -- what can I say?" Workers found the remains of 51 victims, but many others were incinerated in the fiery explosion. The final toll will probably never be known. Many illegal immigrants resided in the complex, and chances are that relatives and friends of the victims may not report them missing...
...fire a alarms did not operate," Gelinas said. "The firemen operated them manually after arriving at the scene...
Make-work union rules are also common in other industries. Morgan Reynolds, a labor economist at Texas A&M, notes that in the railroad business, one of the country's most heavily unionized industries, firemen are often mandatory on diesel locomotives, which do not require them. On non-union railroads, two crewmembers suffice to do the job for which union railroad must employ five. Often, union rules require that railroad workers receive a full day's pay for a few hours work...