Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advertising, overshadowed by Nashville and Jaws, slipping on the projector as Silent Night, Evil Night slid off, making way this week for Aloha, Bobby and Rose. Except for a last ditch run at the Charles, unmentioned in the newspapers. Arthur Penn's new movie came and went like a clerk and his briefcase on the subway...
...sentenced to state prison at Auburn, N.Y., for killing a desk clerk during an armed robbery of a Manhattan hotel. "I didn't get any help in prison for 20 years, until I met Dan Welty," says Brown. Welty, a prison chaplain who also does psychotherapy, managed to get Brown released after he had served 23½ years. Brown, 47, is now married, has gone through extensive psychotherapy and is a paid official of the Fortune Society, an organization of ex-offenders. Although he was able to profit from meeting Welty, Brown knows that such encounters are rare. "Treatment...
...Assignment: Assertion" [May 19], Instructors Phelps and Austin tell their students to apply assertiveness by requesting the demonstration of a product in a department store and then walking away without buying. Let us assume that the store clerk just happens to be a student of the same philosophy. Perhaps the lesson should be revised to include a dash of karate...
...with a B.A. in humanities last December. She wanted to go to graduate school, but she had already borrowed money to finance her way through college and had to get a job so that she could begin paying her debt. The only employment she could find was as a clerk in a St. Paul dress shop. Last week, depressed by her work and unable to land a better job, she quit, gave up her apartment and moved in with relatives. "I'm not sure what I'm going to do," she says. "Sometimes I find myself virtually paralyzed...
...Karen Black displays the selfishness and banality of a seductive blonde eternally on the make. Always on the defensive, she seeks to extract what she can from any situation while giving up as little as possible. When Tod asks why she has taken up with Homer Simpson, a retired clerk from the midwest, she brays impatiently that Homer is the only one who "doesn't want anything from...