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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first step in establishing alternative uses of pension funds may be decided in a Supreme Court ruling this year on the Daniels case. A retired Teamster named John Daniels unexpectedly found himself bereft of pension benefits because of a three-and-a-half month layoff in his 20 years employment. Daniels sued, maintaining that the pension was an investment, and that he had been defrauded. District and circuit courts have upheld Daniels against theTeamsters. The Labor Department lined up the the Teamsters, while the securities and Exchange Commission sided with Daniels. If the Supreme Court rules that, indeed, a pension...
...what director and actor create is a subtly satirical yet never vicious tone that has a delicacy not often found in American films. They can mock the excesses (of behavior and expectations) of a radicalism past while retaining a decent respect for its just social criticisms and youthful idealism. At the same time they can note the inertness of a massively materialistic society without be coming shrill and off-putting about it. In short, there is a welcome and unexpected maturity of outlook in this little film that is extraordinarily attractive no matter where you happened to stand during...
...there is any fault to be found with The Big Fix, it lies in the fact that the former radicals the detective turns up are leading lives rather too close to the center of present-day action. However attractive the purloined-letter (or plain-sight) theory of hiding the object everyone seeks, a viewer may doubt that once famed politicals could work without being recognized in positions as prominent as the ones Moses finds them...
There are colder, less hospitable places, of course. The tricks memory plays are usually flattering. But one of the surprises to be found in The Stories of John Cheever is that the stories are almost always better than people remember. Never before has it been possible to see so much of his short work so steadily and so whole. Never before has the received notion of a "typical" Cheever story-a satire on suburbia, based on fading Protestant morality -seemed further from the more complex and entertaining truth. This massive retrospective of 61 stories (selected by Cheever) is not only...
Ever since small-town American families abandoned their farms so they could become appendages to machines in the city--experiencing at the same time the isolation and overshadowing loneliness of the city--this country has found her heroes in professional sports. Where participation in daily physical activity once precluded mere observations, most Americans today experience the joy of movement through the vicarious thrill. Many become heroes only in their hopes and dreams...