Word: pressman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house is unprepossessing, a small, white wooden frame structure in a quiet Salt Lake City suburb. The family patriarch, a stolid pressman of 41 with muttonchop whiskers, sits in his modest living room playing with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches...
...essay on human fallibility and insect adaptability, The Hellstrom Chronicle seems just a little too facile. The pseudo-documentary framework of the film becomes rickety in places, as Hellstrom (Lawrence Pressman) intones a narration more inflated than informative ("The world was created not with the sweetness of love but the violence of rape"). It is rather as a visual experience that the film succeeds so supremely well...
...Late in January, Kirp told five staff lawyers-Stuart R. Abelson '65, Stephen Arons, Jeffrey W. Kobrick, Carolyn R. Peck and Robert Pressman-that their contracts would not be renewed...
...January, David L. Kirp, director of the CLE, told five lawyers-Stuart R. Abelson '65, Stephen Arons, Jeffrey W. Kobrick, Carolyn R. Peck and Robert Pressman-that their contracts would not be renewed next year...
...dismissal of two of the lawyers-Abelson and Pressman-is presently being reconsidered by Kirp, and two other positions have been filled already with outside attorneys...