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...erotic -- a few minutes of careless sex unmediated by commitment or guilt. For a while the movie seems like another study of love along what is left of the hippie margin. But no, it moves toward ever darker, more claustrophobic interiors as Betty realizes that the lackadaisical Zorg cannot absorb all of her energies. She discovers that he once wrote, and abandoned, a novel. She will type out the manuscript and get the masterpiece off to the publishers. When the rejections pile up, she focuses her hopes on motherhood. When her pregnancy proves to be false, the only place...
...outlays as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps and Medicaid. The federal money earmarked for those programs would be matched with state grants and poured into new benefits, bonuses, job training and family-planning courses, as well as subsidies for the private employers who are expected to absorb two-thirds of the FIP graduates...
...pressure on women to leave their children and go to work could increase the chances of abuse or neglect. The program puts infants and toddlers on the firing line." Some members of the legislature also doubt that the state economy can create the 72,000 jobs required to absorb FIP trainees and others entering the market...
...enviable prospect of lifetime job security through the granting of tenure. Not anymore. Since the late 1970s, academe has suffered a Ph.D. glut as baby-boom enrollments leveled off while universities continued to churn out fledgling professors, particularly in the humanities, faster than the shrinking job market could absorb them...
...That may sound perverse to you, since we have no choice but to live where we were put. But it is very hard to take one's bearings while living in a perpetualmotion device, and the mind, our private mind, unable to catch up with or absorb all the matter hurled at it, often grasps a different ground entirely...