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...obscure, and makes a few phone calls (last week to Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis on the air-controllers' strike, and to Philadelphia First Baseman Pete Rose on his breaking Stan Musial's National League record for total hits). That is about the extent of Reagan's workday...
...family and I are going to be virgins sacrificed on the altar of a Socialist god!" Says an embittered business leader: "The Socialist leveler tide just may succeed where 200 years of recurring French puritanism has failed: to make France colorless and downright boring." As for the shorter workday and higher minimum wage, businessmen insist that less work for more pay will simply make French exports uncompetitive, leading to lower growth and higher unemployment...
...cleaning themselves, washing their hands, trying to rid themselves of the soot and the smells of their city. In the film's opening shot, Sarandon goes through a ritual of purification that appears like a refrain through the movie: to remove the fish-smell from her body after her workday as an oyster-bar waitress, she squeezes lemon-halves over her arms, shoulders, chest and breasts. Dingily unerotic, bathed in orange light, the sequence seems more satanic than baptismal. It distills the almost misanthropic repulsion towards this city that guides Malle's direction: nothing can really wash the smell away...
...Administration in the East Room, Reagan gave a pep talk. He quoted Thomas Paine, declaring, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Then followed short meetings with his senior staff in the Oval Office and a national security briefing. All were in the normal workday pattern...
...robberies and other felonies in the past year). The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) carries one of every six people using public transit in the entire nation. The city cannot function without it. During a ten-day strike last spring, New York firms lost about $100 million in sales each workday...