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...could adopt this salutory way of thinking, you could save your money for a ski trip, you could stop giving bath oil to your maiden Aunt Sophie, you could smoke hash on the street, but noooooo! You have to go out and buy Christmas gifts for everyone and his cousin, including all those relatives you hardly even recognize, let alone well enough so that you can buy then something intelligent and semi-thoughtful...
Speaking of red noses one of the classic Christmas gift non-ideas is still a bottle of liquor. You know, get a half gallon of Chivas for your Aunt Minnie who belongs to the Women's Christian Temperance Union and then visit her house a lot. (Got anything to drink? Why, lookee here! Haw, Haw, Haw!) Assuming no one is really that crass, it's best to reserve bottle gifts for people like your boss, your roommates or the police man who let you off the hook when you were doing 75 down Main Street this Thanksgiving. Of course, there...
...motives are mixed. Some girls invoke principle; one young lady points out that she is "the first Jew ever to set foot in this club, let alone debut in it." Others envision more concrete rewards: "my folks promised me a car for this." "My Great-Aunt Alicia would turn in her grave if I didn't" is a common explanation. A few are cheerful--"This should be a blast"; most are; resigned. Only one fails to see the point in any of it. "It's so silly--my boyfriend's already asked me if he could ask me to marry...
Maysles's new film, "Grey Gardens," describes the life of Jacqueline Onassis's aunt, Edith Bouvier Beale, and Beale's daughter Edie in their dilapidated Long Island mansion...
However, the profile of the domestic worker as a poor, ill-educated woman is slowly changing, as students, artists, writers and housewives adopt household work as a flexible form of employment. Their families are not always pleased. "My aunt babbles on about my editing and my traveling, but she never mentions my cleaning," says one part-time editor. After quitting a managerial job at Joseph Magnin, Taryn Stenman, 22, worked as a maid for six months and found that she made so many connections as a result of cleaning homes that she started her own catering service. "People...