Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, however, Fuchs threw a wrench into district 65's master plan, overruling Walsh and certifying the results of last spring's vote. The union will ask the NLRB's Washington office to review the case, Rondeau said this week. In addition, District 65 will start the entire process in motion again, filing a petition with the NLRB in February for an April election (the earliest date possible according to labor law). Thus the union will continue its organizing efforts this winter in the hope that the third election will finally grant a victory...
...shine of late summer, some leaves almost metallic in density, others a little blurred as the wind stirs them. Into this ecstatically concrete world, a ghost intrudes: the shadow of Atget and his shrouded camera falling across a cabbage plant. Mere shades that whisper "I was here" and so wrench the image away from objectivity toward that sense of mutual dependence between viewer and view that lay at the heart of modernism...
...body blow, the Disney organization has produced a movie that confronts the Dostoyevskian terrors of the heart. In tone, The Fox and the Hound is a return to primal Disney, to the glory days of the early features when the forces of evil and nature conspired to wrench strong new emotions out of toddlers and brooding concern from their parents. The Fox and the Hound lacks the craftsmanship and concise wit that brought a dozen or more characters to idiosyncratic life in the earlier films. The comic relief is perfunctory at best, the five songs are just barely hummable...
...interesting case. Saroyan was born in Fresno, son of Armenian refugees who fled the Turkish massacres at the beginning of the century. He knew the wrench of separation and the insular poverty of California's little Armenias: Saroyan's early years were spent in an orphanage after his father died and his mother had to work full time. Like the young bringer of good news and bad in his screenplay turned novel The Human Comedy, Saroyan began his working life as a telegraph boy. When his short story The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze...
...Police arrested a juvenile in Leverett House G Tower for breaking and entering and possession of burglary tools. The youth was carrying a screwdriver, a wrench, and two pairs of pliers...