Word: agers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Labor Department calculates the unemployment rate much the way Gallup takes a public opinion poll. Government officials each month telephone or visit 65,000 randomly selected households to determine whether any teen-ager or adult living there is jobless and has looked for work at least once in the previous four weeks. If a person fits both criteria, he or she is officially unemployed...
...passed finally, and let out into their city. Eerily quiet. Horns are not allowed in Moscow, so the hum of traffic, as one would expect from a klaxon-less society, is occasionally punctuated by the shriek of rubber tires under stress. Not a teen-ager anywhere. They are in the summer camps, we are told. The city is spotless and newly painted - a kind of Disneyland gilt. The Misha bear, with his Olympic-rings belt, smiles at one from everywhere. He began to get to me after a while - largely because of the mascot's eyes: astonished above...
This largely buried argument is all that connects the book's welter of anecdotes. A Chicago teen-ager named Harold Rubin is limned practicing self-abuse over photographs of nude women. He is joined in the narrative by the newly married Hugh Hefner, who wanders the streets and gazes at apartment windows where women might appear. Hefner makes room later for John Bullaro, a married Los Angeles insurance executive who bicycles to Venice Beach on Sundays to ogle sunbathers...
What will happen during the projected recession of 1980? James is fairly gloomy. Attendance for the first three months of this year is off 6%, a partial result, no doubt, of the inflationary squeeze. Says James: "A teen-ager who has to pay $20 to fill his car with gas and $5 for acne medicine is going to be hard-pressed to pay another $10 for a couple of movie tickets, a bucket of popcorn and soft drinks...
...busy. She won an Emmy last year playing a mother who finally reconciles with her daughter in a CBS special called Strangers; in her entire career she has probably never given a better or more poignant performance. Last month she played a poor woman who befriends a black teen-ager in another CBS special, the unfortunately titled White Mama; next week she will be seen in a Disney sci-fi thriller, The Watcher in the Woods. And if The Thorn Birds is ever made, she will probably play Mary Carson, a rich Australian dowager...