Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world premier of Dealing, a movie based on a book by Michael Crichton '65--Harvard's second-most-successful pulp author--concerning, fittingly enough, a slick young Harvard entrepreneur who pays his club dues by engaging in Cambridge drug traffic. ("Financing Higher Education through Student Enterprise," as they say.) Sack Theatres, the Boston outlet for this creation, decided that a real-life Harvard tie-in would be just the thing, so they wrote to the President offering to make the premier a Harvard benefit. But the idea of the University affiliating itself with a business venture concerning drugs at Harvard...
This incident beautifully points up all the enigmas and contradictions which HSA manipulates for gain in its other operations: Its affiliation with Harvard brought the Sack offer in the first place, yet it is officially beyond the reach of those who had sought to prevent Harvard's name from being associated with such a tawdry affair. As a "worthy cause" it can accept charity contributions and special privileges from the University, yet as a private organization its student executives can pocket thousands of dollars of monopoly profits. There is, in fact, no connection at all between a student's financial...
Italians, however, might-perhaps ought-to take special offense. Jimmy Breslin's comic novel recorded the exploits of a sad-sack mob of Brooklyn hoods with good-humored scorn. Waldo Salt's chaotic script turns Breslin's characters, which were already caricatures, into vicious racial stereotypes. Everyone is either venal, murderous, retarded or deformed; and since they are almost all Italians, one might be tempted to conclude that everyone whose ancestors were born between Sicily and Milan is a feeble-minded racketeer...
...moment, Kramer dropped his guard ("baring" himself, as he put it), and told the audience about his projected film on Lt. Calley. Kramer has the rights to John Sack's book, and spent five weeks at the courtmartial getting seventy hours of tape. "You've got to recognize that he's a human being. Certainly, he's uneducated and inarticulate. But he's a human being, and the prosecution was trying to make him out as some kind of animal...Before you understand My Lai 4, you've got to understand My Lai 1 and My Lai 2. This...
Loss Leader. Next to product, price was the topic most discussed by NATO last week. Chicago's Lewis reported that "there's been almost an organized rebellion against the $3 ticket," and called for price cuts. Ben Sack, a Boston chain owner, spoke vehemently against reductions, warning that "the next thing you will be giving away dishes again like they did in the Depression." Too late. The price war is on, and in Detroit they are giving away dishes, while elsewhere there are "football widows' nights" on Mondays, "early bird" matinees, even free admissions on off days...