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...clerical operations. Factory work is usually dull and repetitive, and too often dirty, noisy, demeaning and dangerous as well. It is a national scandal that last year on-the-job accidents killed 14,200 U.S. workers. In most auto assembly plants, a worker must even get permission from his foreman before he can go to the bathroom. The four-day week offers no real prospect for humanizing work; doing a boring job for four days instead of five is still an empty experience. Charles Reich says: "No person with a strongly developed aesthetic sense, a love of nature, a passion...
Directed by RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Screenplay by CARL FOREMAN...
Apparently impressed with the lead-soldier shenanigans of Navarone, Winston Churchill summoned its writer-producer Carl Foreman, talked with him about the movie, and about such previous Foreman scripts as The Bridge on the River Kwai. Foreman was just the man to write a movie version of his early years, the statesman decided...
...boring. He treats his sister rudely, not maliciously, but he makes bothersome demands on her and she must keep house for him. He flirts obnoxiously with girls on the streets and in hamburger joints, again not maliciously, but stupidly. He is perfectly self-satisfied, and in response to a foreman's lunch-time suggestion that he might improve himself he kicks over the benches and stools his work buddies are sitting on. Nothing in the film suggests any depth or complexity in the man's character, and he certainly isn't successful in his pursuit of happiness...
...contracts, more than one management negotiator has hyperbolically contended that some particularly rash union demand would turn the workers into millionaires. For a few fortunate union members, that is no longer a wild exaggeration-not since the New York Times uncovered the story of Tom Dowd, 39, a labor foreman working on the two 110-story towers that make up Manhattan's World Trade Center. During six years of scheduled work on the project, he stands to earn more than $500,000 in wages. Last year alone Dowd cleared $94,000, and the union of which...