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...union starts organizing a hospital it can easily arouse fears that these delicate relationships might be upset. Factory unions may stand in clear opposition to dark forces of exploitation and concentrated economic power, but few people like to think that hospitals, agents of aid and mercy, could be harsh employers. The prospect of a labor-management struggle when management is in the business of nursing sick people back to health is very disturbing to many. And the prospect of raising already incredible hospital bills still higher to cover increased labor costs is not an enchanting...
...feud had ended in 1972 when the elder Leakey flew to Koobi Fora to spend an exciting evening with his son, examining fossils late into the night by the harsh light of a gas lantern. That night Louis predicted that Richard would find evidence of three hominid species at Turkana. A few weeks later, he died, unaware that events would prove him right. Says Richard: "I think his sheer dogged persistence?and his follow-through on ideas to the point where they were proved either right or wrong?was his greatest gift. In many ways, his greatest achievement...
...first time, we are too caught up in their unaffected eroticism to notice much else. Only after the lovers leave their vacation paradise does Goretta begin to reveal his hand: as null grows bored with the affair, The Lacemaker seamlessly goes from lush romance to harsh political parable. Like the French writer Guy de Maupassant, whom he quotes in the movie, the director is a master of sudden shifts in mood...
...time, other than immediate family. Their movements are restricted and they may not be quoted in the press. Individuals apprehended on suspicion of posing a threat to South Africa's security, under a new law passed last year, can be detained indefinitely without trial. Justifying the harsh steps, Kruger explained to the nation on a TV broadcast that the government had acted swiftly to defuse a dangerous "revolutionary climate," fueled by "a small group of anarchists." Pretoria, he vowed, would re-establish the "total stability" that preceded last year's bloody riots in Soweto...
...coital bouts with the heroine provide Looking for Mr. Goodbar with its few insightful scenes. When this couple make violent love, we can begin to understand the complex erotic passions that draw Theresa to her self-destructive double life. The rest of the film's brutality-its harsh language, its vicious climactic murder scene-are merely heavyhanded manifestations of Brooks' moral-mongering. The audience, not to mention Diane Keaton and Judith Rossner, deserve greater rewards in exchange for the punishment. - Frank Rich