Word: strike
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...difficult to comprehend each individual's motivations. While in Zola's novel Germinal Etienne is depicted as passionate if misguided, it is impossible for the audience to fathom why, after sojourning, it seems, only a few days in the mining town of Montsou, he incites the workers to strike despite obvious indications that this action will have no positive effects. Renaud, a French folk singer, plays the part stiffly and as an observer, creating a character unsympathetic in the extreme...
However, Riefenstahl's conviction that an artist has no political responsibility for his or her art will strike most viewers as naive at best, and disingenuous at worst. And the idea that "Triumph of the Will" is not propaganda is just plain impossible to take seriously. Riefenstahl defends herself by saying she was hired by Hitler as an artist to make an artistic film, not a political...
Californians, not to be outdone in sentencing innovation, are now reviewing "one strike" legislation that would sentence child molesters and rapists to life with out parole...
Beyond tactics, moreover, the U.N. has no strategy. Nothing holds the pieces together. There are thousands of peacekeeping troops; on-again, off-again negotiations; the occasional ultimatum, flexibly enforced; the odd air strike. Amounting to what...
...Teamsters reached a tentative agreement to end their three-week-old strike. The union successfully blocked a move to hire more part-time workers and achieved increases in pension contributions and health-care coverage...