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...heat heat from fiery red ingots rose in shimmering waves, and smoke drifted through the air, as Senator Edward Kennedy stood on a platform in the middle of the Universal-Cyclops Specialty Steel mill outside Pittsburgh. Shouting through a bullhorn above the clangor of the plant, he told a crowd of 200 workers that President Carter's proposed budget cuts would reduce safety inspections of steel mills. Roared Kennedy: "I'm not going to let them take that protection away from the steelworkers. He [Carter] ought to come out of that Rose Garden and talk with some of those steelworkers...
Nonetheless, flashes of brilliance coupled with wonderful individual performances set Simon apart from run-of-the-mill, hack comedies. Arkin is totally insane in this movie, and well he should be. His unabashed portrayal of this bizarre "visitor from the stars" captures plenty of subtlety. His funniest scene in the movie--when he extricates himself from a sensory deprivation tank he's been kept in for almost 200 years--is so good you want to rerun it many times so it'll settle in your memory. His brain loses 500 million years of evolution in the process...
...bargaining is expected to reach a reasonably smooth conclusion by the April 15 deadline. Even if talks break down, there will be no strike; disagreements will be settled by binding arbitration. Says one high union official: "We have no illusions. The owners are not going to keep a steel mill open if it is not making money...
...steel mill, a pulp and paper mill, or a nuts and bolts factory sharpen perspective and brighten the bankroll. "It brought me in closer touch with the proletariat and at the same time made me wealthy," said one sophomore who worked at a factory last year and managed to reconcile theory and praxis...
...heroic sense of the black American past, whether his subject was a powerful personality like Frederick Douglass, the Motor City ghetto of his youth or such physical relics of slavery as the old factory he describes in his 1979 volume American Journal: "[In] the tidy ruins of a sugar mill./ More than cane was crushed. But I am tired today of history, its patina'd cliches of endless evil...