Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critique of the Communist Party's role in East German industry was tough and trenchant. "The indolence of the bureaucrat corresponds to the apathy of the worker, which, in turn, is matched by the disgust of the technical experts." The author was Rudolf Bahro, 42, a mild-mannered executive of an East Berlin rubber factory, and the quote was from his new book The Alternative-banned in East Germany, but a bestseller in West Germany. In an extraordinary act of defiance and courage, Bahro had agreed to be interviewed on West German television, which is watched by an estimated...
...room filled with his own movie equipment, and leans over a video console that beams forth his face, like a T.V. newscaster's. Making movies has become like factory work for Godard, he admits, saying, "Now there are only machines. I am the boss, but I am also the worker...There are other factories: in Los Angeles, called Fox and Metro, in Moscow, in Algeria..." He then fills the screen with the flashbacks to May '68 and Vietnam. But the news footage, like Godard's revolutionary zeal and assurance, is dwarfed by the monitors, knobs and gadgetry that make news...
...Huron Productions chose Dubuque, Iowa, to film some scenes for F.I.S.T. (the Federation of Interstate Truckers), which is being distributed by United Artists. It stars Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) playing a warehouse worker who becomes one of the country's most powerful labor leaders. Dubuque has the ambience of an industrial town of the 1930s. Another production, The Betsy, about infighting in the auto industry, is, naturally, being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio...
Your new co-worker may be a former...
...final years calculating compound interest. Some players whom he sold for $150,000 are now unemployed. Historically, you did not make millions playing ball. You made millions by owning a ball club. I recall no consistent campaign against the ancient robber barons of sport, except in the Daily Worker, which had a limited following...