Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caine was a story of action and adventure; Marjorie is a love story, and beyond that, a girl's quest for her own identity. The Caine was a clear-eyed account of life aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in World War II; Marjorie is a clear-eyed and warmhearted account of Jewish family life in the 19303. Marjorie is overlong, sometimes graceless, often plodding, but like The Caine, it has a compelling sense of reality, as if the novelist had planted hidden microphones in the house next door and poked a zoomar lens down the chimney...
...many British gentlemen owe so much as they do to the overdraft. As peculiarly British as cricket, the overdraft is undefined but tradition-hallowed, its rules as precise and respected as though set in stone. The gentleman who finds himself short of funds simply writes a check on his account. The bank honors it (charging interest on the overdraft, providing the gentleman has been reasonable). If he hasn't, he is summoned to the bank managers' paneled chambers for a discreet chat, emerges knowing just how many pounds he may overdraw in the future...
...Boudoir. "Frank Sinatra," says an agent who wishes he had Frank's account, "is just about the hottest item in show business today." Sinatra, who in Who's Who lists himself as "baritone" by occupation, has offers of more work than he could do in 20 years, and seems pleasantly certain to pay income tax for 1955 on something close to $1,000,000. Moreover, his new success spreads like a Hoboken cargo net across almost every area of show business...
...book-club system, which accounts for about 10% of all U.S. book sales, has moved into the music field in a big way. Mail-order music clubs have been spinning profitably on the fringes of the record business for ten years, and today they are going stronger than ever, may now account for as much as 15% of the LP business. Their method resembles the book clubs': full-page ads in the Sunday supplements, often dominated by the word "FREE!" in doughnut lettering. The usual deal: subscribers get a record free for joining up, or for every two they...
...From a furniture store they can get a living-room set at $15 a month, and from the appliance man a freezer for $8.29 a month. If they want a power mower, some hardware dealers will sell them one for a few dollars each month in a budget charge account. The clothier, the fuel-oil dealer, even the man who sells storm windows, are only too happy to carry a new customer on time and figure it out in monthly payments, each one the same as the last. It takes much less grinding will power than the old family budget...