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WINGING IT. United Airlines plans to hire 400 welfare recipients in slots from reservation clerks to cabin cleaners this year. The carrier has been using a nonprofit agency called GAIN (Greater Avenues to Independence) to recruit and train the newcomers, who earn from $5 to $10 an hour to start. To help smooth any turbulence, United assigns mentors to welfare hires for their first 60 days on the job. "Mentoring is the key to the whole welfare-to-work program," says Talani Wilson, 23, a new personnel clerk and single mother who had been spending six hours a day commuting...
...hard to imagine Stewart's innocence as dangerous. The magic moments I treasure most are when his throaty hesitations are melted in a murmur of tenderness--the defensive and rigid store clerk of The Shop Around the Corner confessing his love for Margaret Sullavan, the small-time banker whispering "Mary" over and over while Donna Reed is on the telephone with another...
...three sisters and pregnant mother. A week earlier the family's home in Queens, N.Y., had been fire-bombed. Later Qubilah would say she wished her father had worked in a grocery store. "I was always angry he left me behind," she said. "If he were a simple store clerk, he would still be here...
Nothing--and everything--prepared Kevin Smith to become, as he has been called, "the King of Gen X cinema." The son of a postal clerk in Highlands, N.J., he recalls an uneventful childhood "in a white-trash town. I watched six hours of TV a day. I read comics and went to Mass on Sundays. In high school, I worked as a busboy. On weekends, we'd hang out and make crank calls and go drinking. Defining moments of my generation? When Fonzie jumped over the shark tank in Happy Days...
After a semester of college and four months of film school, Smith found himself back home working for $5 an hour at Quick Stop, a convenience store. Light bulb! Why not a movie based on the life of a convenience-store clerk? He wrote Clerks in a month and shot it at the store after hours, in black and white. (Cost: $27,575.) The movie won awards at Sundance and Cannes. "A totally welcome blast of stale air," raved a critic. "Grunge Godot." Smith was 24 and already anointed by Hollywood, but his next movie, the $6 million Mallrats, flopped...