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...full executive director's salary of $38,500 through the next convention. Instead, it placed him on a $19,000 annual pension, plus a $10,000 consulting fee, beginning next January-a difference of $4,750 in his 1977 earnings. At a press conference later, he pounded his fist on the table and insisted he would remain at the post "at the executive director's salary." Board members deny Wilkins' accusations...
...their strategy clear: crush all signs of militancy before the further aggravations of an insulting contract offer and a drastic reduction in income blow them into strike proportions, while purging the local of its leadership before contract negotations begin. As students depart for the summer, Harvard's anti-labor fist is poised for a decisive blow, and timed to provoke a minimum of public outcry. The solidarity of campus workers is an urgent necessity. This latest assault must be countered with demands for reinstatement of the suspended stewards with full back pay And for back pay for all workers docked...
...Tangent Watchers," the most recent of a series of intimate dances titled "Inscapes," Gray does succeed in reaching beyond her theme. A duet for two women, the pieces begin with Gray pounding her fist into her palm, Susan Dowling catching one wrist with the other hand. Dowling delicately arrests her gestures, Gray percussively snaps hers. Both work within their own style of moving and yet transcend their individuality too, dancing in unison through the second half of the piece. In contrast, Gray starts off another dance in the series, "Looking to See," with unison movement. In this piece a second...
...moral of the McDonald's success story is not that every little poor boy can become chairman of the board with enough sweat and strain. The many skeletons in the McDonald's refrigerators disprove this. It was not the invisible hand of the free market but the iron-gloved fist of corporate greed which flipped the burgers that made McDonald...
During the final days of filming, Fellini hunched against a Mitchell camera, chewing on the ball of his fist as if it were an apple core. He was watching two young actresses rehearse a scene that was not going well. In Italy, the sound track of a film is dubbed in later, so Fellini can direct like a latter-day D.W. Griffith, instructing as the camera rolls: "Move toward me, Olimpia. Pause. Take a deep breath. Look down at your hands. Bravar Actress Olimpia Carlisi is not acting to the camera, but to her director, her Svengali...