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George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFL-CIO from its birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who accused him of being too conservative, Meany lectured Presidents and public alike with equal bluntness...
Next day Tehran TV beamed fuller films back to the U.S. via satellite. This time, ten more hostages were shown. Eight more, seen only in photographs released by Pars, the Iranian news agency, brought the total shown to 34. One photo was of U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen, who has been held at the foreign ministry in Tehran. Some clearly had lost weight, but most looked reasonably healthy. And now their voices could be heard. Some sat beside the monsignor at a long table in a sparsely decorated-and thus unidentifiable-room. Only a Christmas tree brightened...
...guides the supporting actors into buffoonish caricatures. The actresses attempting Mel's sisters show no subtlety and more annoying, don't seem to believe in their characters as real people. Even their costumes are cartoonish and inappropriate. As Mel's constrained brother Harry, Jamie Orenstein aims at a fuller characterization, but remains rather wooden...
...large man, some 6 ft. tall and 200 lbs., with "the wild-hawk look foreigners associated with Americans." He had great enthusiasm for Free Thinkers, the militant feminism of Margaret Fuller and George Sand, and such fads of his day as magnetism, sexology and phrenology. According to the bumps on his own head, Whitman had "a certain reckless swing of animal will, too unmindful, probably, of the conviction of others...
...world renowned pianist-author, who in this first of a series of six lectures discussed the "romantic" approach to music that developed during the 1830s, said 19th-century composers had a "fuller conception" of the sounds they wrote than earlier composers...