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...winced when Harris risked offending liquor advertisers by publishing a tough cover story on drinking; they were displeased when he installed a Ping Pong table at the editorial offices (Harris paid for it himself), and they were confounded by the unregimented atmosphere he relished. "We have created the ultimate sweatshop, one where we have eliminated the difference between work and play," Harris liked to say. (Stormed Ziff when he first heard this: "Exploitative nonsense. Work is work...
...doubts do not trouble ABC News President William Sheehan and the network's top brass. They are counting on Walters to inject a measure of prestige and cash into their sagging news operation. Among the three networks, ABC has long been known as the Triangle Shirtwaist factory-meaning sweatshop-of television journalism. ABC spends about $44 million a year on its evening news (v. about $47 million each for CBS and NBC). The network has fewer correspondents than its rivals and is thought to pay them less. In a poll of 78 television editors, critics and columnists...
Hester Street is the story of a Jewish family that cannot hold together under the strains of reunion in America. Jake Pakovnik has arrived in America before his wife and young son, and has had time to affect the trappings of his adopted country. Although he works in a sweatshop, Jake sports a three-piece suit and keeps a girlfriend on the side...
Gitl makes a valiant effort, but cannot conform to her husband's new ways. With his American values, Jake claims that he is twice as good a man as their boarder, Bernstein, because he makes twice as much money. Perhaps the sweatshop boss best summarizes the differences between the Old and New Worlds when he observes that in America, "the peddler becomes the boss and the Yeshiva student sits at the sewing machine." At one point, as her neighbor Mrs. Kavarsky is squeezing a groaning Gitl into a corset for that sleek American look, she tells her, "You wanna...
...script, adapted from a period novel called Yekl by Abraham Cahan, concerns a small group of transplanted Jews painfully adjusting to the promised city. Yekl (Steven Keats) now calls himself Jake, works in a sweatshop and courts Mamie (Dorrie Kavanaugh, an actress of spirited sensuality). He takes in a boarder, a subdued former Yeshiva student named Bernstein (Mel Howard), and prepares for the coming of his wife Gitl (Carol Kane) and infant son from the old country. Jake is not exhilarated by their arrival. They remind him of an older life now past; more important, he cannot break Mamie...