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...home to watch TV or moonlight on a second job-and still collect full base pay ($64 per day). That undemanding life is largely the result of a combination of two forces: the rise of container ships, which has greatly reduced the need for dock labor, and the success of the International Longshoremen's Association in negotiating supergenerous pay guarantees for dockers who no longer have much to do. The I.L.A., however, sees a threat to its members' easy life-and on Oct. 1 it called a strike that has halted the loading and unloading of container ships...
...Daltrey proven to be as great a drawing power on the silver screen as he had been on the concert stage, Russell could have at least consoled himself by thumbing through the box office receipts while he burned the critics' pans. Although Tommy did enjoy some limited early commercial success. American moviegoers did not exactly shower the film with their dollars, much less their raves. A similar fate will undoubtedly befall Valentino, Russell's latest test of how much difference The Big Name can make...
Rudolph Valentino can justly lay claim to a certain degree of historical importance in the evolution of American cinema. During his extraordinary success in the '20s he revolutionized the prevailing conception of how a leading man should look and act. And his rise to the top of the silent film industry, the nation's newest rage, represented a sociological phenomenon in itself, given Valentino's immigrant background and the xenophobic America of the '20s. Russell's film never pauses to reflect on the significance of Valentino's legacy, however. The director seems too obsessed with the glory and worship heaped...
...main plot line The Immigrants much resembles such other novels spanning the '20s as John Dos Passos's The Big Money, or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Man is broke, but dreams of success. Man works hard, makes lots of money, seeks beautiful, high-status wife. Man discovers that success he finally gains leaves him, in the end, unfulfilled and unloved. The large balance in his bank account cannot ensure his emotional well-being...
...LIGHT of this semester's numerous cutbacks in student services, the recent record of partial success and partial failure for two new student advocacy groups leaves believers in student activism with dampened but by no means extinguished hopes. One group is the Student Lobby, the 20 students who organized last month's "Eat-In" breakfast protest, which the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) voted 10 to 12 not to recognize as an official undergraduate organization October 3. The other is a college-wide student government that Currier House organizers hope to form after House committees send delegates...