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...degree of raunchiness in the pornography magazines depends on how each publisher assesses his need to be daring, his hankering for respectability and acceptance, or his fear of the law. Hustler, raunchiest of them all, aimed at blue-collar workers, has only the law to fear. Cheaply edited but high in price ($2.25), it scorns respectability and advertising because it makes so much on circulation alone (a news dealer, who gets from 20% to 30% of a magazine's cover price, earns five times as much for selling a copy of Hustler as he does from a 45? Woman...
...blue-collar hostility to aerobic exercises probably relates to the exerciser's perverse dissipation of energy. Conservation has always been the ethic of the lower middle class, and it is silly to watch the fitness-conscious executive...
Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, with his wisp of mustache, starched collar, bowler hat and understated manner, often looks like a Downstairs character asking a small favor of the man Upstairs. And indeed, until recently, the Irish were among the profligates of Europe, living it up as if someone else were responsible for their bills. Wages wildly outstripped productivity. Unemployment was the highest in Western Europe; inflation raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling...
...business leaders who, in addition to being crucial to the turning of profit, also demonstrate the capacity to take risks (this even though students of corporate gamesman ship say that those at the top often survive by not risking too much along the climb). Certainly the biggest blue-collar pay goes to workers who have most effectively improved their competitive position by organization - and recently blue collars have won ascendancy over poorly organized white collars in average salary. In all systems, the factor of supply and demand is at work as an influence if not an iron law - even...
...fact, not many blue-collar workers or their families take part in aerobic sports. Not all motorcyclists are blue collar, but almost all bicyclists and runners are white collar. In snow country, the line between white-collar crosscountry skiers and blue-collar snowmobilers sparks with animosity, and is seldom crossed. Factory workers are nearly as sedentary as bank presidents now, but clearly the conviction persists from the arduous old days that sweating is what privileged toffs...