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Visitors were led through a labyrinth of nearly pitch-black hall-ways lined with skeletons, spiders and red-eyed bats dangling from the low ceilings. Monsters, moving mannequins, ghosts and other shadowy figures lurked behind corners and black curtains to surprise unsuspecting children...
Employers, of course, have their own arsenal of weapons for turning back organizing attempts. Companies can often keep unions at bay simply by firing employees who seem sympathetic to an organizer's pitch. Forklift driver Jerome Childs filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last month after Preferred Consolidated, a Chicago-area warehouse operator, laid him off. The firm says the dismissal was for gashing the wrapping on a palette of Styrofoam boxes that Childs had been told to unload quickly. Childs says it was for favoring representation by Unite, a recently formed combination of clothing-workers' unions...
...alone one that boasts Sherwood Schwartz, the brain behind both Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, as an auteur. But here goes anyway. The Larry Sanders Show, with its laugh-trackless verisimilitude, is the best comedy on TV, probably the closest a sitcom will ever come to perfect pitch (yes, it's on HBO--so much for ground rules). The best drama: Party of Five, a thirtysomething for teenagers and young adults--with all the pluses (honest, abnormally well-crafted writing) and minuses (too much acoustic guitar in the soundtrack) that the thirtysomething comparison implies. And for pure cheese...
...took the mound in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium last Wednesday night. In preparation for the World Series, Greg Maddux was throwing live batting practice to some of his Atlanta Braves teammates, and they each walked away smiling, shaking their heads. They couldn't hit him, either. "Watching him pitch,'' said manager Bobby Cox, as he stood behind the batting cage, "just turns...
Maddux is not the hardest thrower in baseball, but he does have five pitches and total command of the strike zone. And as good as Maddux has become--he is about to win an unprecedented fourth straight Cy Young Award--he remains terribly unimpressed with himself. ''I just pitch," he says. The closest he'll come to a boast is this opinion expressed before the Series: "I like to think good pitching beats good hitting...