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November 30, 1979: HUERA's old contract expires, and leaders pledge to fight the University tooth-and-nail. Crockett says, "Harvard doesn't like to give up money. They say they're broke, but then they build a $100,000 building." Bonislawski says, "It really gets to me when Harvard says workers are a dime a dozen. We should have the benefits of the wealth we help produce...
...past the University has always fought us tooth and nail," Graham added...
...Roeg in the past, notably in Don 't Look Now, but it does not really suit a study in obsessional behavior. As anyone who has ever suffered that peculiar form of mental torment knows, it tends to fo cus the mind narrowly and dully, rather as an aching tooth does, permitting it few enlivening leaps or juxtapositions of the sort this movie keeps attempting...
POLLUTION. Oil is the biggest offender, and not just in obvious ways like fouling beaches. Lobsters, for example, have a sweet tooth for the rich hydrocarbons they find in glops of oil off the New England coast. As oil spills and exploratory oil digs increase, some environmentalists fear that lobsters' migratory and mating patterns may be affected. Says Coast Alliance Executive Director Bill Painter: "There are thousands of little spills every year that experts think are a great danger to the environment. Those spills...
...roots with its mouth outlined in dogs' teeth and its scalp matted with human hair, could coexist with a high order of technical skill. What survived the auto-da-fe in greater quantity was decorative art of lesser iconographic content: not gods, but feather robes, bone or whale-tooth ornaments, and the beautifully carved wooden containers, irregular in their polished silkiness, from which the Hawaiians ate their poi, a sort of tropical office paste made of taro roots...