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With this broad outlook, all men are latent billionaires because of world resources and advanced technology. The problem is allocation of this wealth. Fuller feels current institutions prevent people from living like kings. He believes the establishment's faith in the Malthusian theory of searcity has led to wars and wasteful stockpiling of arms. Fuller tries to dispatch these doomsday beliefs so that mankind will work together. If fear of poverty is dispelled, cooperation and efficient coexistence are inevitable...
...good-looking, modern-day werewolf picture, boasts not only the writer's pedigree but a young lifetime of B-movie lore devoured and disgorged by Director Joe Dante, with whom Sayles worked three years ago on an engaging Jaws rip-off called Piranha. Their new film drops latent or blatant references to a dozen low-budget horror movies; characters are named after some of the more mediocre talents ever to win a Directors Guild card (Lew Landers, Roy William Neill, Erle C. Kenton); Roger Corman, godfather to many young directors, makes a cameo appearance, as do Forrest Ackerman, editor...
...place of subtlety and effective characterization, Knowles substitutes irrelevant plot contrivances. Inconclusive innuendos concerning Wexford's latent homosexuality are included, as are sporadic references to Hallam's ex-wife, the reason for the breakup and their eventual reconcilliation...
...than appalling. Reports indicate that the Coop has hired a union-busting consultant, perhaps paying him as much as $1000 a day for his expertise in intimidating workers. The store's front office has released a barrage of anti-union propaganda, all designed to prey on the fears and latent conservatism of the workers. A series of letters from the management to the workers outlining its opinions on the effect of voting in the union's favor contain no outright lies. Instead, they highly exaggerate the negative effects that unionization possibly entails and present a grossly distorted vision...
...Congress cannot let the President get away with the censorship of entire disciplines," the source said, adding that "the disproportionate nature of the cuts toward several areas shows the administration's latent hostility toward the academic community...