Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supporters of the boycott maintain that Gallo's agreement with the Teamsters is a "sweetheart" contract--a contract signed with an unrepresentative union to try to head off more militant organizing...
Even in the wake of The Exorcist, it is too much to ask an audience to take seriously a plot about a young witch-boy of the Ozarks who turns human to marry his sweetheart but is turned back into a witch by the jealous schemes of the witch-girls he has left behind. The only magic in the play consists of the near-miracle that the cast is good enough to keep the audience's attention...
...last-minute overhauling to sink a less determined group, the production is remarkably spirited. The witch-boy (Bob Buesman) puts together a set of mannerisms that brings an air of mystery to the stage, and his feline presence provides a focus for the rest of the cast. His human sweetheart (Ruth Freedman) makes an appealing victim, and the rest of the townspeople are engagingly high-spirited and down-to-earth. The preacher (Bob Stier) takes the caricature of old-time religion just far enough to be convincing, and the play is best at capturing the small-town fundamentalism that lives...
This summer, in the largest agricultural strike in U.S. history, thousands of grape workers walked off their jobs when their employers refused to re-sign contracts with the United Farm Workers. Instead the growers signed "sweetheart" contracts (contracts between a union and an employer without union representation elections) with the Teamsters. Over 6000 people were arrested in California for trying to exercise their right to picket in peace. Two striking workers were killed; one was beaten to death by a sheriff's deputy; the other was shot as he picketed the fields of his employer. Despite anti-strike injunctions...
Lucas uses the pursuit of adolescent sex as a device to pace the film and develop his characters. The dolt must separate from his high school sweetheart, the captain of the cheerleaders. He discovers that he can't. The one who is reticent about leaving home spends the night pursuing a boss blond, more dream than dreamy, who is tooling in a white T-bird. Milner, a lonely fellow at heart, wastes half the evening trying to get rid of a junior high school girl he has picked up by mistake, and spends the other half learning to appreciate...