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...FREEDOM IS TO man as water is to fish," declares one of the characters in Bertolt Brecht's The Tutor. In the play, freedom is metaphorically equal to sexual license, so when the lecherous tutor castrates himself, Brecht's message is clear; this misguided soul, in his anxiousness to retain his livelihood, has performed an unnatural act, just like the German intellectuals who kowtowed to Hitler. Lest we construe Brecht's meaning too narrowly, however, he reminds us, in a line emblazoned on the set, that his aim is "to illumine all our sorry state, not only that of Germany...
...right to hire and fire employees. The employer must give at least one month's notice of dismissal, with older workers entitled to up to six month's notice. Unreasonable dismissals are illegal with the employer bearing the burden of proof when challenged by the unions and the employee retaining his job at full pay pending a court decision. If the employer lays off workers, he must do so according to seniority with employees over 45 receiving double seniority. Employees retain seniority in re-employment for one year after lay off. The same group of laws contains measures to protect...
...landing back on the board, for example. A World Skateboard Pro-Am Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena last month attracted 37 teams of pros, including Top Star Denis Schufeldt, 24, a San Diego yoga teacher who claims to use "yoga and body control" to retain his title as the fastest downhill racer...
...WILLIAM SIMON, ever-resourceful, has a new wrinkle called "the profits depression," to explain the imminence of a capital crisis. There are three ways in which businesses acquire capital for plant and equipment expansion: they retain earnings or profits, they sell stocks, or they sell bonds. Over the past ten years, according to Citibank's Wriston, business has gone increasingly into debt (sold bonds) to finance its expansion; and the capacity of the bond markets is narrowing. Thus companies will have to look more and more to the stock market and to retained profits for capital sources. This, of course...
...tables, taste tea and Baby Watson cheesecake, and talk sibilantly. The films are shorts and perhaps have a tendency to subside into vignette. But it is certainly much easier to accept a short than a feature-length film at face value, to kern a message, to retain one final sentiment. Because of this, a well-arranged succession of short takes has as much or more potential than a full-length film for establishing a coherent flowing image. And Off The Wall has put together ten shorts that flow into an undiluted visual delight...