Word: picketings
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...seven months Reagan tried to serve as a mediator, but eventually he led actors across picket lines to help break the strike. Tension ran so high that for a while Reagan carried a revolver; he thought that Communists were out to wreck his career and might even threaten his life. He is incensed now that some writers are taking a revisionist view of the period. Says Reagan, his mouth a thin line and his face more grim than he ever lets it get in public: "The rewriting of history that is going on about that era is the biggest fairy...
...U.A.W.'s efforts paid off last week in New Jersey. When the state's purchase and property division decided to buy 450 Datsun 210s because they were $700 per car cheaper than comparable American cars, autoworkers immediately strung picket lines around the statehouse in Trenton and demanded that the deal be quashed. On the second day of the protest, both houses of the legislature unanimously passed a hastily drafted bill to prohibit the state from buying any cars not assembled...
...shotgun blast into the sunlit air, and no more. No blood, no violence, and that is a disappointment. Of course there is nothing intrinsically good about violence in the cinema, and those who would tell us that there is come off as silly as those who would picket The Warriors. The point is that the use of violent action demands justification from the rest of the movie, in some way, and that one way of justifying violence is to make a great movie; by killing some people the audience cares about, in an early scene like this, the director...
Arthur finally drops off the man and counts the $10 he is handed, putting him well over his goal for the night. Stuffing the new bills into his shirt picket, Arthur smiles. "I haven't had luck like this since I picked up some banker from Maine at the Commander. He was this well-dressed, old guy who told me he just wanted me to drive him around the Commons. Pretty soon, I was thinking he was crazy, so I asked him if there wasn't someplace else he'd rather go. My girlfriend was riding with me that night...
...series could resume as early as this week, and viewers could get to see the new shows by the end of October or beginning of November. A musicians' strike, which has yet to be settled, will hold up work only if the actors refuse to cross the picket line. Film production may have to wait, and movie producers, who have big budgets to worry about, may not let the cameras roll again until the contract is finally approved...