Word: movers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exploited (by both their employers and their unions) and ignored (by the rest of society). But such matters are not much discussed in movies. Paul Schrader, previously best known as the writer of Taxi Driver, which dealt with another sort of disfranchisement, deserves high marks for originality as prime mover, director and co-writer of this new project...
...likely to be haunted by what they left behind. California Congressman Fortney Stark, a prime mover behind Congress's efforts to aid Americans imprisoned in Mexico, has a file of more than 200 horror stories from inmates. One woman arrested on a drug charge claims she was informed that if she refused to confess, she would be tossed into a river and ground up by a nearby power plant. Another charged that officials had ripped off one of her earrings-and her ear lobe. Male inmates reported being tortured with cattle prods while still dripping from a shower. According...
Another prime mover is Taul Watanabe, 57, who was briefly interned during World War II because of his Japanese ancestry but won his release, after petitioning President Roosevelt, to accept a law-school scholarship. Now a vice president of the Burlington Northern Railroad, he persuaded the presidents of six Japanese shipping companies - all of whom he knows - to use Seattle as their U.S. port. That move created 3,100 jobs, $50 million in annual direct benefits for the region and helped make Seattle one of the nation's leading containership ports. Watanabe was among the first to urge Dixy...
...reveals in a detached and slightly bemused tone. Plimpton's little guy lives at a more enduring level than rich or poor. Plimpton trying to gain entrance to Ali's restricted quarters, chatting with Hemingway, or catching flak from Malcolm X, is always the moved one and never the mover. He lands where the buffets of fate and more vigorous personalities may send him, and we sympathize...
...toughest problem for the team will be getting adjusted to the contact aspect of the sport," commented Tania Huber, a prime mover in organizing the women stickers. "Most of the women are going to be gun-shy initially because that puck is scary when it's blasted down...