Word: labors
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...Boston area. With a conventional script, the black-and-white movie pays homage to the timeless formula of an old Hollywood musical and romance set against a backdrop of a roaring jazz scene. Yet Chazelle reinterprets the genre by filming the movie with an unorthodox, and often labor-intensive, technique. “I tried to approach the genre of the musical in a documentary way by using the lives of people as the framework of the film,” Chazelle says. “This involved following the actors in real life and a lot of improvisation...
...slow zoom sometimes verges on the picayune, it also highlights the eternal puzzle of summer pacing. Benji and his friends can't wait to get out to Sag, but once they do, they're desperate for ways to kill time - until the evening, until the weekend and ultimately until Labor Day. Summer is a self-consciously in-between state; summer coupled with adolescence doubly so. Whitehead stirs up a few deep currents - the escalating tension between Benji's parents, notably - but for the most part, he adopts Benji's strategy of never venturing too far into rough surf ("Sand beneath...
...once snubbed an invitation to join Britain's House of Lords. Jack Jones, 96, preferred to make his mark by rising through the ranks of the Transport and General Workers' Union, where he became a national figure in the U.K. through his fight for labor rights...
...postwar abode. And efficiency upgrades can save more than just the earth; they can help shield property owners from rising power costs. Moreover, a nationwide effort to improve existing buildings could create hundreds of thousands of green jobs. (In addition to using less raw materials, renovations are often more labor-intensive per dollar spent than new construction is.) "There's an enormous opportunity here," says Lane Burt, an energy-policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Energy efficiency is a way to spend now to create jobs, while still saving down the line...
...Democratic Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania is pushing for a new law that aims to pay community colleges nationwide $1,000 per student to retrain laid-off workers. Casey's bill would set up the Unemployment Tuition Assistance Program as part of the Department of Labor (DOL). People filing for unemployment benefits would be notified that tuition assistance may be available to them, and colleges that volunteer to participate would register with DOL for reimbursement, which Casey says would come from existing funds already allocated to job retraining in the department's budget...