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Finally, the drivers retreated from the Teamsters' sincere offer of support. The drivers had promised to file a petition with the NLRB for a union election if Harvard refused to recognize their right to unionize. The Teamsters realized that NLRB precedent indicated the drivers' legal case was hopeless, but they weren't prepared to give...
Kinski' Tess, like the film itself, lacks vigor. Her naivete digresses into weakness. Yes, Tess is a hopeless victim of an indifferent universe, but Hardy's character possessed a spiritual fortitude that vanishes in Kinski's performance. When Tess finally tries to seize control of her life, to alter her Fate, we cannot believe the aggressiveness of her action. Kinski can't change the overall tone of her performance after nearly three hours of teary timidity...
...course, one would be hard pressed, once one looked beneath the drawl, to find anything unique at all. The South is as distressingly prime-time American as any other section of the country, perhaps even more so. We would like the South to be different; to be a hopeless anachronism. But we're not going...
...that it was "driving you into a sorry person." They were yahoos and warriors, gigglers and killers, they were pilots and brain-damaged tennis pros. If they were funny--and they usually were--they were also noble as the last minutes of desperation dragged on and on. They were hopeless and deranged, but somehow against all the odds they retained this ridiculous faith. And though capable of extraordinary cruelty, they remained in Hannah's eyes, worthy of extraordinary compassion. They were the exaggerated voices of the minds which richochet at alarming velocities when simply going out to get a paper...
Administration strategists are keenly aware that if every committee in Congress is asked to approve reductions in its pet programs, the budget-cutting drive may bog down in a hopeless tangle. Said Democratic Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin: "The way this town works, a lot of the turkeys will be salvaged and useful programs will be gutted." Accordingly, Reagan's legislative aides tentatively decided last week to wrap almost all of the program into four superbills. They are: the tax bill; a "recision" bill ordering reductions of $13 billion in spending for the remainder of fiscal 1981, which ends...