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...penchant for sodomy and red heads, Noiret lifts his character out of the prevailing "the straights are just as crazy" mold and gives life to this balding judge who still lives at home with his exquisite, adored Maman. Noiret captures the fierce ambition of Rousseau; he yearns for that Legion of Honor medal with all the intensity of a good schoolboy who wants to please his mother...
...indisputably burning. The toughest issue in the negotiations for a new contract between General Motors and the auto workers was not demands for more pay for the U.A.W.'s 460,000 workers on GM's pay roll, but for increased benefits for its fast-growing legion of retired employees. A big reason why policymakers in Washington are agonizing heavily over Chrysler's petition for federal help is the stark fact that if the company were to close down, the nearly $1 billion in unfunded pension obligations that it would leave be hind could exhaust the private-pension...
...legion of financial matadors would have been needed to quell the stampede of gold bulls, who in five days of frantic trading last week boosted the price to nearly twice as high as it was only 21 months ago and three times as high as 38 months ago. In London, one frazzled trader termed the heated bidding "wild and irrational." It was no less so at the International Monetary Market in Chicago, where a record 31,591 contracts were posted on Thursday. Buyers also rushed for other precious metals. Silver approached $12 per oz., up from $6 at the beginning...
...talked of socialism as a possible way of redistributing wealth. His texts were popular with liberals and sold widely. In the mid-1930s nearly half the schoolchildren of America read Rugg. But as war threatened, Rugg was thought to be unAmerican. In 1939 such diverse organizations as the American Legion and the Advertising Federation of America attacked his views. Rugg textbooks were dropped by schools...
...logistics of making an epic are awesome. Cimino, like Napoleon, is not the kind of strategist to skip a legion. The film involves more than 1,200 extras; from cravats to camisoles, their costumes had to be authentic. He went to Philadelphia to find a top-hat maker, and even farther afield to track down contemporary firearms and long-retired craftsmen who could make scores of wagons. From Denver, Cimino ordered a 19th century locomotive that had to be rerouted because it was too big for many tunnels. Then came the roundup of 80 wagon teams. Using fewer horses, says...