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ROOTS is a catchall title that contains some of the best film in the festival. It is four short subjects, all under an hour in length, linked by a common concern: the director's attempt to delineate ethnic identity. William Greaves' (The Fighters) From These Roots, a montage of still photos of Harlem in the 1920s with a stentorian narration by Actor Brock Peters, is the most traditional of the group. It struggles to compress a decade of black his tory into 30 minutes, and still man ages to repeat itself. Film Editor Mirra Banks' Yudie...
...than 14%. Delaware, California and New Jersey have also been clobbered, with the inner cities hit worst of all. "In the spring it took 15 minutes to get your unemployment check and get out," says Charles Johnston, an out-of-work carpenter in Trenton. "Now it takes from an hour to an hour and a half." The South still has a lower unemployment rate than most other regions, but lately its economic barometers have been falling faster than the national average. One reason: the South still "imports" much capital from the North-and the capital is scarce and staying close...
...inverted pyramid, on the production of VC, and OSHA's new standards threaten that production. The agency ruled that starting Jan. 1, workers cannot be exposed to more than one part of vc per million parts of air (v. the present 50 p.p.m.), averaged over an eight-hour day, or to more than 5 p.p.m. for any period longer than 15 minutes. The new rule applies only to the some 6,000 workers who handle VC directly in 50 U.S. plants...
Although it seems impossible, it could be that there are some opera lovers somewhere who have never had the chance to observe Sills at work. If so, they will want to be at their TV sets next week when Sills stars in a two-hour presentation, in English and color, of Donizetti's 1840 comic opera Daughter of the Regiment (PBS, Monday, Oct. 14). Taped last summer during an actual performance at the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts outside Washington, D.C., Daughter marks Sills' first appearance on TV in a complete opera. It is also...
...years in advertising and promotion at Time Inc., Look and McCall's. "I guess I am a little like Slocum," he finally admits. "I suffer from a fundamental lack of confidence. I don't like speed or excitement. I won't go 65 miles an hour because I worry about a tire going flat. When I go swimming, the surf is a little too rough for me." And, he says, "I'm not comfortable with plots that move too rapidly...