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...NORMA RAE...
...Norma Rae is the story of trashy white woman (Sally Field), a textile worker in a small Southern town, who discovers that she actually has a social conscience when a labor organizer (Ron Leibman) arrives at her mill to establish a union. Despite his education and his uplifting concerns, he is a rainmaker figure, a man capable of breaking through the various dins (of factory, family and juke joints) that have drowned out the voice of Norma Rae's best instincts. His winning out over her suspicions (there is a romantic attraction here that is wisely left unconsummated...
...fault is surely not Field's or Leibman's. Each is at once tough and vulnerable and, above all, engagingly high-spirited. And their roles are well written. Norma Rae's somewhat checkered sexual history, we come to understand, represents the only locally available outlet for a venturesome, restless but essentially very moral spirit. She has, we see, merely been waiting for something more rewarding to occupy her energies and her realistic, feisty if untutored mind. The character of Reuben, the organizer, represents a triumph of sorts. He is the first accurate representation onscreen of a type...
Event Ten: 100-yd. Breaststroke--1. Koji Mishimura, Army, 57.37. 2. John Christensen, Princeton, 58.49. 3. Kent Whitaker, Dartmouth, 58.74. 4. Alex Rae-Grant, Yale, 58.89. 5. Dirk Crandell, Cornell, 59.48. 6. Paul Mansfield, Drexel, 59.52. 7. Chris Judge, Fordham, 59.77. 8. Frank Polefrone, Bucknell...
...Rae-Grant (Y) 2:10.45; Suh (Y) 2:12.81; 3. Royal...