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...redeemer appears to offer even brief hope of change. The only appealing character is an individualist named Archer (Mick Ford), whose rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand into the system, but not the monkey wrench that would bring it to a halt. There is also a hard case named Carlin (Ray Winstone), whose rise from victim to "Daddy" (the inmate who rules over his section) provides the plot with such movement as it has. There is an implication that Carlin's rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Borstal Boys | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

When the University threw a wrench this week into its negotiations with Local 26, which represents Harvard's dining hall workers, union members found themselves embroiled in some half-baked bargaining...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Stale Mates | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

...replaced before the plane could fly. Boeing sent in a "recovery crew" from Seattle, which took on the job like a team of open-heart surgeons. Not only did each man know exactly what he had to do, but the team's tools, right down to the smallest wrench, were arranged with such precision that no time was lost in looking for or using them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masters of the Air | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...waiting attorney, William Kutmus, approached the judge and suggested that perhaps his client, Loren R. Wilson, might be of some assistance. Wilson borrowed a paper clip and a pipe wrench, lined up the tumblers in the lock and in three seconds popped the door open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Justice Is Blind | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Voters in Kennedy's native Boston have done similar soul-searching, and many of them have stopped backing him for much the same reasons as people elsewhere in the country. The wrench is particularly painful for Massachusetts voters who have strongly supported Kennedy in all of his previous campaigns, as TIME'S national political correspondent, John Stacks, learned last week. His report on three typical voters who have abandoned the Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: He Wasn't in Touch | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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