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...giant pulp mill for the Amazon wilderness...
Wages. In its first public blast at a labor negotiation, Bosworth's COWPS condemned as "clearly inflationary" a 25.5% three-year wage offer that West Coast employers presented to 21,000 pulp-and-paper mill workers. Both Bosworth and Charles Schultze, the President's chief economic adviser, fear that labor is coming to take for granted annual 10% wage increases. Unless the trend is reversed, says Bosworth, "we might as well forget about decelerating inflation any time in the near future...
...words "freedom of speech." Burger found no evidence that the framers of the Constitution intended "special" or "institutional" safeguards for the press. He further maintained that "media conglomerates" were becoming indistinguishable from other large corporations by branching out into businesses unrelated to news dissemination. He specifically cited pulp mills (as in the case of the New York Times, among others) and pulp timberlands (as in the case of Time Inc., among others). In a somewhat gratuitous swipe that he admitted was of no constitutional relevance, he noted that media conglomerates are no more "virtuous, wise or restrained in the exercise...
...Platonic crush on a fellow Brooklynite (Karen Lyyn Gorney) trying to elbow her way onto the promised island of fame and fortune on the other side of the East River. True to the spirit of "Rocky," "Saturday Night Fever" amounts to little more than another serving of accessible cinematic pulp; as such it has furnished Travolta with his very own stairway to heaven. So long as the film is accepted for what it is--highly marketable entertainment and nothing else--"Saturday Night Fever" will deliver for most of its two-hour length. And if Norman Wexler's cliche-plagued screenplay...
They contain raw material: alchemical treatises and Renaissance architectural tomes, anatomical figures and worn kachina dolls. New Hebrides masks, pulp novels, turn-of-the-century store cata logues from which Ernst cut the engravings for his haunted collages - the vast flea market of the dreaming mind, here emblematically reduced like a ship in a bottle...