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...this week's cover package on Actress Meryl Streep, Corliss delved into the literary and structural artifices that characterize her new movie The French Lieutenant's Woman. Corliss, who also wrote last year's cover story on the prime-time television soap opera Dallas, found Harold Pinter's transmutation of John Fowles' multilayered novel into a film-within-a-film a challenging experiment. Concludes Corliss: "Because of its complexity and cerebral detachment, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a difficult film to fall in love with-but the performance by Streep...
Directed by Karel Reisz; Screenplay by Harold Pinter...
Labor union leaders and many politicians charge that the uninvited foreigners have taken jobs away from Americans and flattened wages at the lower end of the economic ladder. Says Harold Washington, a black Congressman from Chicago: "The mere presence of a large number of illegal aliens is depressing wages generally, and forcing unskilled blacks to take dirtier, lower-paying jobs." In most industries that employ large numbers of menial workers, labor law violations can be found. Some of the worst offenders...
...launch satellites over the pole into orbit, measure the geodetic forces, and program their missiles accordingly. That is exactly what the U.S. does to complement its own east-to-west ICBM test shots from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Furthermore, says Harold Brown, Defense Secretary in the Carter Administration and now visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington: "Since Soviet warheads are considerably more destructive than ours, they are less sensitive to bias. They can withstand a bigger error in accuracy...
...themselves or their cronies. These turned out to be Fitzsimmons' enemies. Three whose names occur in the agents' reports were Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president whom Nixon had just released from prison on condition that he take no part in running the union until 1980; Harold Gibbons, a Hoffa loyalist who was boss of the Teamsters in St. Louis; and Jay Sarno, who had built two Las Vegas casino hotels with loans from Teamster pension funds...