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Spinetta recognized an inflection point. "It was vital we let employees see how this opening of markets and increased competition imposing all the changes they were resisting also provided enormous opportunities for us all," he says. "It was the moment to really start working together." To do that, Spinetta wrought a minor miracle: finding the elusive "third way" between the protective, paternalist policies of welfare-state systems and the dog-eat-dog free-market approaches of U.S. and British firms that send French workers running to the barricades. Spinetta managed that with a mix of wage restrictions in exchange...
...typical liberal arts education usually doesn’t include exploring Boston neighborhoods or teaching in the city’s public school system. Yet the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning offers just that: courses that require students to apply their classroom experience outside the wrought-iron gates of Harvard Yard...
Beck did get something right: The Pudding is vulgar, crass, outlandish, pun-filled, and wrought with sexual innuendo to the point where one more reference to fellatio is like beating a dead horse. No pun intended. It’s a lot like Shakespeare: boys in drag, rapid wordplay, sex everywhere. And people love it; they come back year after year to sit in their seats and be offended, to enjoy the comic material that would be edited from primetime and bleeped out on basic cable. Even matinees (which boast a median age of around 63) contain audiences filled with...
...Bauer, who plays a controversial writer and friend to Dreyman, adds an important element of anger that clashes with Dreyman’s naïvely optimistic attitude. Martina Gedeck, who plays Dreyman’s girlfriend, delivers the most clear external example of the destruction wrought by internal conflict—the audience watches as she is worn down to a nub by the struggle between right and wrong. The director also makes the score a key element, elevating it from mere wallpaper to a vehicle of communication between the audience and the film. The music remains soft, allowing...
...that films in genres like science fiction, fantasy, and the Western have frequently been able to address cultural anxieties that might be too sensitive for a more realistic narrative. He cites Ishiro Honda’s “Gojira” (1954), a grim allegory of the destruction wrought by the atomic bomb, as a particularly strong example...