Word: agedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The argument for permitting firms to "train" teenagers at a penurious wage is equally faulty. Proponents of a training wage would allow a sub-minimum wage for youths aged 16 to 18. Does it really take two years to be "trained" at floor sweeping and cash register banging?
Granted, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit is a funny play, but it's not exactly his funniest. Coward shows us his darker side in this play about a middle-aged man's troubled relationship with his two wives, one of whom has been dead for seven years.
If Samson seems slow to catch on to the freeze-out, it is partly because he has been distracted by Fiona's replacement. Lovely Gloria also works at Secret Service (London Central), and is more than 20 years younger than Deighton's middle-aged hero. As in previous Deighton thrillers...
THE theme of children dealing with a parent's death is timeless in literature, but in danger of being rendered trite through overuse. In The Letter Left to Me, Joseph McElroy avoids cliches by developing this theme in a unique and effective manner. The novel centers on letter from a...
And some blame women for getting raped. Topor recalls that "the middle-aged mother of one of my friends saw the movie and said to me, 'Obviously she deserved it.' " Says Gail Abarbanel of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica Hospital in California: "I haven't seen a single...