Word: careers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give a career in consulting and banking...
None was happier with Sneddon's arrival than Weisbrod, who despite playing defense at the end of his high school career, was fearful of making his college defensive debut...
Billy Markham is a talking blues about a failed songwriter who decides the devil could not possibly be any worse than the music publishers and producers who have thwarted his career. A gambler, boozer, womanizer and general hellion, Markham tosses away eternity in exchange for a single, futile roll of the dice, then squanders what reprieves are offered in unrepentant revelry. He nonetheless stumps Satan twice, escaping the first time and settling down the second time into a perverse sort of domestic bliss. Markham's good-ole-boy world view is distasteful: women are treated as property, and both defeats...
...even in Los Angeles, where the whole point is to spend more than you can afford, rising values are no longer a given. So it's more important than ever not to buy a house you can't afford. And more sensible than ever to consider renting, if your career requires you to move often, incurring what can be upwards of 10% in commissions, closing costs and mortgage points each time...
...from a high, disinterested view. He never gets steam into the affair. Paul Newman approaches Earl from the outside too, as a growly-bear clown who doesn't realize he's King Lear. Lolita Davidovich, making the most of her first big break, plays Blaze as a sensible, loving career gal with an overripe body. But the picture is not mainly about sex or even love; it is about an aging man's loss of sexual, political and personal power...