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...stark contrast to the world of Cher, TIME'S Economy and Business section this week takes a long look at unemployment. Senior Editor Marshall Loeb wrote the story, assisted by Reporter-Researchers Sue Raffety and Sarah Button in addition to correspondents and stringers across the country. From Washington, National Economics Correspondent John Berry and Correspondent John Stacks reported on the big picture: how the economy and unemployment affect each other; who the people are that make up the swelling army of 7.5 million jobless Americans; what role the Government plays...
...show runs against The Wonderful World of Disney in the 7:30 slot on Sunday night, and there is something wackily inspired about this amusing little coincidence that the CBS programmers have arranged. Just standing there on her runway, half-clad in one of the twelve to 15 costumes Cher Sarkesian Bono wears out every broadcast hour, she inspires more -and infinitely richer-fantasies than all the plastics of Disneyland. Indeed, it is barely possible that Cher in Cher may -with a little help from the many shrewd friends who so elaborately package her each week-redefine that grand...
...America, she has a choice. If she is into liberation, she can see Cher bravely soloing as a variety-show star after the breakup of the Sonny and Cher partnership (and marriage) as a blow for emancipation. It may even be a vindication of sorts. Sonny, who had the reputation of being Cher's Svengali, suffered the ignominy of having his solo show canceled in midseason, not long before Cher rose into Nielsen's top ten. If sexual politics is not Mom's bag, then she can sit back and relax while enjoying the fashion show...
Mother is joined by the group that forms the heart of Cher's fan club-girls who are sub-teen and even younger. For them she is, in the current phrase, "jive." Cher proves that at least one American dream lives: she gives evidence that show biz can still reach out among the adolescent millions and-with a little luck and a lot of hype-transform a mildly talented young woman into a hot, multimillion-dollar property. And that the chosen one gets to have inch-long fingernails for a trademark, if she wants...
There is something appropriate about this pubescent ardor for Cher. At 28 she is herself not far removed from the true-believer status of her fans. Indeed, her saving, authentic grace may lie in her ability to admit that the only definition of success she has ever held is stardom. She is a creature totally formed by show business-first by her fantasies about it, then by her precocious immersion in it. She married Sonny, then a record promoter, when...