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Their greatest number, Never Gonna Dance from Swing Time, is an eight-minute ballet of seduction and parting. The quarreling lovers won't dance; they must dance. Their bodies sway helplessly to the music and then surrender to embrace...
Some companies have been quick to exploit the vulnerability of unions, chiefly by hiring consultants to keep unions out or to encourage employees to decertify unions even after they are in a plant. Such professional union busters have long held sway in the South, where few workers have been organized. Only 1.7% of manufacturing workers in the Greenville-Spartanburg area belong to unions, and South Carolina's business establishment intends to keep it that way. Says Carroll Gray, executive vice president of the local Chamber of Commerce: "We'd prefer not to have unions. We will continue...
...writing classes. History struck an extraordinary long-range blow at Andrew Jackson, President from 1829 to 1837, when in 1975 a Berkeley political scientist named Michael Rogin published a book Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. Rogin says he was writing under "the sway of the Viet Nam War." He sees Jackson as little more than a vicious Indian hater, "presiding over American expansion and Indian destruction," presaging general American attitudes toward "native peoples" everywhere. Andy Jackson, in fact, has been one of the most volatile of Presidents in his historical repute. The dominant...
This alternates with an overhead shot of the Convention. Every deputy in the great hall is on his feet, long lines of men facing each other, shouting. As the scene becomes more riotous, the camera starts to sway, rocking back and forth with a nauseating momentum. The scene cuts back to the little man alone in the storm, his Tricolor ripped to rags, and then back again to the Convention. When the sequence draws to a close, the camera above the Hall is in full swing. Human figures barely distinguishable, the motion is sickening yet hypnotic--Gance turning Napoleon...