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Solondz observes all this activity from an objectifying distance, very much the anthropologist trekking through the heart of darkness. He is, perhaps, too relentless in his grimness, too unforgiving. But there is a certain perverse integrity in his depressive's gaze, something weirdly compelling in his refusal to ingratiate himself with his audience. You keep waiting for him to crack a smile, offer a consoling gesture, express some softening sentiment. He does not. And if there is much that is withering in his contempt, there is also something bracing in the loony tunelessness of this hymn to human dispirit...
...best] clubs and salons..." Cloud and Olson not only recount the broken friendships and broken illusions that saddened the later years of Murrow's boys, they also lay down a disturbing, if not completely convincing, indictment of commercial broadcasting for abandoning the legacy of Murrow and Company in a relentless pursuit of corporate profit...
Finally, when no corrective action by Mitsubishi seemed forthcoming, the 29 women represented by Benassi joined in a civil suit against the company in December 1994 charging "relentless sex discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual abuse from male colleagues and, in many cases, from their male supervisors." Although all the sexist acts were allegedly committed by Americans, the suit charges that Mitsubishi's Japanese managers were complicitous by their complacency. Japan's manager society is far more sexist than America's. In Japan women are almost unheard of in management...
...change for just one box and have it gone in less than a week." Since World War II, no food category has had more price increases than cereal, which easily outdistanced the rate of inflation for groceries (see chart). But consumers began balking in 1994, angered by relentless price hikes. Last year sales of cereal began to drop...
...relentless tides of demographic change in most large American cities have eroded the gains made during the school-desegregation era. In 1972--the year blacks sued to desegregate Boston's schools--some 90,000 students were enrolled in the public system, 54,000 of them white. As of September 1995, some 63,000 students remained, barely 18% white. What does it mean to say that one is for integration in a school system so configured...