Word: musclemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Musclemen Score...
...kind of skin-flick that rarely makes it off the grind-house circuit. But this film is being released in the U.S. by Joseph E. Levine, a canny showman with a shrewd instinct for profitable exploitation. Five years ago, the only chained-up people in Levine movies were Mediterranean musclemen and Nubian slaves. From this standpoint at least, La Prisonnière marks a certain kind of progress...
...Crimson tallied 18 points in the first three events to take a short-lived lead. Musclemen Dick Benka and Ed Nosal exploded for victories in the shot put and 35-pound weight respectively. Benka, hobbling for the past week from an ankle injury, uncorked a heave of 59'1" to outdistance George Allen of St. John's by more than a foot for his second consecutive IC4A championship...
...Musclemen. Emerson Stamps, 44, a Negro and president of the Topeka local of the Kansas Health Workers' Union, has been a mental-health worker for 20 years. To support his family of seven he has to work two full shifts, one at State and one at the local Veterans Administration hospital. An aide at State starting now gets $295 a month, and after six months gets a $14-a-month raise. After 15 or 20 years on the job, he might get $505 to $557 a month as a psychiatric aide Grade 3, but there are only...
When Negroes first started taking jobs at State, says Stamps, they were regarded as mere musclemen. "The hospital wanted strong black bodies, seasoned by hard manual labor, to handle patients who hadn't been taken out of seclusion for years." Now, with no official upgrading, Stamps and the other strong men assist in electroshock treatments, guard narcotics supplies, give injections and other medications, take an active part in group-therapy sessions-and, by the doctors' insistence, must always be available to the patients. "Society is going to have to recognize that it's at least as important...