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...useful purpose because they led people to read the books. But these days it's not too hard to imagine college students who are caught up in the film-as-film trip using films made from novels as entertaining forms of learning. All they have to do is skip the reading and use them as a kind of celluloids Monarch Notes. As for Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus refers to "the cracked looking glass of a servant" as a symbol for Irish art. It's also an appropriate symbol for Ulysses the movie--a broken reflection of an inimitable world...
When I left the ball park on my final September night, I knew that there was more to vending than walking up and down the aisles. And I knew that next year, if I could keep my hard-earned coke prestige, I could skip over that hotdog...
...manufacturers in the Southwest that bask in a non-union atmosphere. Union organizers were able to capitalize on a genuine labor grievance. Farah's mostly Mexican-American workers complained that they were held to unreasonable production quotas that often forced them to cut short their lunch hours and skip rest-room breaks. The battle was joined in May 1972, when Farah dismissed six workers, allegedly for union-organizing activities. About 2,000 Farah workers walked off their jobs in sympathy; the Amalgamated came out in support of the strike and later started organizing the boycott...
North Carolina State, the perennial Atlantic Coast Conference power squadron, decided Monday to skip the contest in order to concentrate on the NCAA championships to be held in two weeks...
...young entrepreneur's career began at age 14, when his mother, who owned a corset store in Brooklyn, cut off his allowance. He took odd jobs as a theater usher and a mail clerk, decided to skip college and become a talent agent. Geffen falsely claimed a drama degree in order to land a job in the William Morris Agency's mail room. "I came in an hour before anyone else so I could check all the incoming mail," he recalls. "I was just trying to intercept the letter from U.C.L.A. saying they had never heard...