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...dispite over public negotiations is only a sideshow to the main event in the Harvard-Local 26 set-to. The real issue is the contract itself. And here the bargaining stances are so fat apart that even if negotiations started tomorrow a strike on June 19 or more probably next September when students return could not be ruled out. Bozzotto's union what a one dollar an hour across the board pay increase free medical insurance and a set of so-called "dignity demands" specific contract language ruling out elimination of employment positions. stricter adherence to seniority-based promotion...
...indeed, of which they become part, has the trappings of drama, the slow-motion choreography of a dream, the bleary musicality of an after-hours club at dawn. It also has the conviviality of a carnival, the commercialism of an appliance convention, the congenial corruption of a sideshow. The theater of fashion...
...seems to be grappling with the essential human misery of the vast majority of Asia, indeed of mankind--not a new theme, to be sure, but one rarely addressed honestly by filmmakers. Even when directors treat elemental human problems--hunger, disease, poverty--they usually depict them as an incidental sideshow to the more natural cinematic book of political machinations. Misery becomes a political cliche, a problem to be solved with a wave of the hand as soon as the "right" politicians get into power...
...parents did not want the sideshow life of a prodigy for the eldest of their three children. When the television show The $64,000 Question called, trying to book Jimmy for an appearance, they declined. When Comedian Sam Levenson wanted to cast him as a musical genius in a TV show, they turned him down. When the legendary piano teacher Rosina Lhévinne of the Juilliard School first heard Jimmy play and said, "I must have this child," they told her to wait until he was older. Says Levine: "My parents handled all the critical decisions of my early...
Andy Young's rooming group is diverse even by Harvard standards. A pet bos constrictor and a tarantula make the Dunster House senior's room look like a cross between a natural preserve and a carnival sideshow. But along with his menagerie, Young brought to Harvard an interest in the study of animals and a highly developed skill in photographing and filming them in their native habitats on three continents...