Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tempting to see the baby sub not just as a prototype toy for the rich in Florida and California but as a seagoing Model T Ford, a future flivver of the deep, or like the Curtiss Jenny biplane, some kind of ur-machine that may usher in a new age of travel. In that perspective Kittredge and Jacobson, like early aviation nuts who paid for their rickety planes by giving flying lessons or built them on a financial shoestring in barns and attics, can be regarded as American visionaries, gambling on the hope that history will catch up with their...
...physicians' waiting rooms they sit, these weekend warriors, with their tennis elbows; stress fractures; broken noses; tendinitis; dislocated shoulders, hips and fingers; strains and sprains; not to mention sundry bruises, abrasions, lacerations and concussions. "People should realize they simply cannot ask their bodies to do as much at age 30, 40 or beyond as they could at age 20," says Mount Sinai's Dr. Burton L. Berson, a New York City orthopedist who runs one of the many new sports-medicine clinics that have sprung up all over the U.S. to care for men and women wounded...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 30.4 million U.S. families (53% of the total) have at least two earners; their median income is $20,400, or $7,200 above that of one-earner families. But this includes couples of all ages with some of the spouses working only part-time. Yet there is a powerful and growing subgroup: moneyed, self-indulgent, career-oriented families in which the husbands are in their mid-20s to mid-30s. Of the 11 million families in this age bracket, nearly four million are households where the wife has a full-time job. And many...
Actually, the potency of names is recognized more clearly and used more craftily than ever in this age of advertising. Name recognition is accepted as vital by both politicians and businesses. Ohio's ex-Congressman Wayne Hays, unsavory reputation and all, recently won a state legislative primary largely because of name recognition. Companies now calling themselves Equifax and Standex want to plant themselves in the public mind, while signaling that they are in tune with the technotronic times. And hucksters have long relied on the power of a clever name to sway a customer's decision. The popularity...
...first film project of the National Lampoon, the magazine that prides itself on raising sophomoric yuks to a fearlessly nasty pitch. The movie has the same strengths and weaknesses as its parent publication. At its best it perfectly expresses the fears and loathings of kids who came of age in the late '60's; at its worst Animal House revels in abject silliness. The hilarious highs easily compensate for the puerile lows. A few dumb gags about ROTC thugs and big breasts do not detract from the film's scabrous assaults on undergraduate caste systems, sanctimonious preppies...