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...market target is massive. Seventy-six million people, nearly one-third of the U.S. population, were born between 1946 and 1964. Moreover, now that they are mostly in their 20s to mid-30s, many baby-boom adults are taking home big paychecks for the first time. Population experts refer to this as "the pig in a python" phenomenon because demographic charts today resemble a snake that has just swallowed something huge. The people born during the baby boom form a large group that comes between two periods of baby bust: the Depression and the 1970s. The boom is slowly working...
...husband Lou, 66, whom she met on the beach near by in 1933, is with her now. Lou, who was born in Atlantic City, remembers walking on the girders of Convention Hall, where the Miss America contest is held, when it was being built in the late '20s...
...been a long time since Hollywood Boulevard glittered with the perfervid glamour of the '20s. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams tarnished slowly for decades, declining by the late '60s and early '70s to the same sleazy fate as its East Coast counterpart, Times Square. Cleanup efforts partly succeeded, and now, on weekdays, some stretches feel like the downtown of a small city. But, says Police Sergeant Bob Rebhan, "I wouldn't go up Hollywood Boulevard on a weekend night without being armed...
...Upon his return, he spoke well of the so-called zero solution to disarmament, a proposal to have the U.S. agree not to deploy any new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe while requiring the Soviets only to begin negotiations about the removal of the 250 SS-20s already in place...
Surprisingly, the most successful production was the Hindemith. News of the Day is a Brechtian satire from the '20s about an ordinary couple (Soprano Mary Shearer and Baritone William Workman) whose divorce makes worldwide headlines. It's not half the opera that Hindemith's great Mathis der Maler-a work that really deserves revival-is, but Lou Galterio's madcap staging made it lively and Bruce Ferden's energetic conducting kept the evening humming. No amount of stage magic by Director Bliss Hebert, however, could save The Rake's Progress, the most depressing waste...