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...pinpoint unregistered members and sign them up. In Alabama, registration among members in one Sheet Metal Workers' local shot from 40% to more than 90%. Last month, AFL-CIO President Kirkland took to the road in a "solidarity van," going on a two-week, get-out-the-vote odyssey across the industrial Rustbelt...
...Cliffs is marketing the ultimate shortcut for harried students: 45-min. audio cassettes billed as "companions" to twelve such standard assignments as Wuthering Heights and the Odyssey. The tapes incorporate dramatizations of key scenes and brief lectures on their meaning...
...based on Friedrich Nietzsche's notions of the death of God, the will to power and the rise of a superman would become one of symphonic literature's greatest hits? Yet long before Director Stanley Kubrick popularized its spectacular organ and brass apostrophe in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss's blazing essay in orchestrational virtuosity ranked high in audiences' esteem. Maazel and the Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur of its arresting introduction, the suavity of its incongruous waltz and the enigma of its bitonal ending. The rarely encountered, frankly Wagnerian...
...Space Odyssey proved that moviemakers didn't have to tell the whole story to hold their audiences. Star Wars showed that a film could contain more information than most viewers could catch the first time around and still be an alltime blockbuster. MTV serves up a Dalicatessen of surreal images, and everybody comes back for seconds. Gremlins goes through more drastic mood changes than Sybil; it has sold more than $100 million worth of tickets this summer. Buckaroo Banzai, then, is simply extending the trend of data overload. Still, its creators, Earl Mac Rauch (New York, New York...
...murderer's odyssey began in 1970, after he had been ruled sane and sentenced to a life term. An Edinburgh prison chaplain's sermon started Nelson pondering the self-centeredness of his life. Gradually he turned to God and began thinking about ways of serving him. Released on parole under lifelong probation in 1979, Nelson entered the divinity school at the University of St. Andrews. He was accepted as a student candidate by a national church committee in 1981, and won the routine approval of St. Andrews Presbytery, the supervisory body representing dozens of congregations...