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Typical of the suddenly idle worker of 1980 is Wilson Painter Jr., 31, a Pennsylvania apprentice machinist who was let go by U.S. Steel in May. A big-boned man with the look of a football guard, Painter tries not to dwell on the future. Instead, he spends his empty hours playing with his two children, helping his wife Kathy around the house, or ritualistically unpacking and cleaning the precision calipers, gauges and scales that lie neatly slotted in his tool chest. Painter was halfway through a program to become a journeyman machinist when he was laid off. Those tools...
...million homes now wired for cable, while the three major networks can reach almost all of the 76 million U.S. homes with TV sets. But Turner is convinced that there is a greater appetite for news than the networks can satisfy. "Because of ratings pressure, they tend to dwell on catastrophe-dictators assassinated, seagulls covered with oil, volcanoes erupting, charred bodies," he says. ''The only time they tell you what's going on in Washington is when some Senator has gotten caught with his hand in the till...
...Nixon, a self-certified geopolitician--wonder where he got that from?--has set himself too lofty a task to dwell on past squabbles. He is warning us against ourselves, hoping against hope that we will slough off our guilt, indecision and blithe good nature and gear ourselves for the ultimate showdown at the OK Corral. After all, we are told...
...those who surrounded him afterwards; leading the life of the writer and traveller from the moment the finished medical school, then, may have paralyzed his work. Drawing from his own life, he could examine only the concerns of a writer, socialite, and traveler, much as pop singers today dwell incestuously, in their lyrics, on singers and singing...
Undershaft vows to win daughter and suitor over. He visits Barbara's soup kitchen shelter and proves with an open checkbook that he can bribe the poor and buy the Army, which desolates Barbara. He then invites everyone to his munitions plant, where the workers dwell in a model city. From generation to generation the Undershaft inheritance can only go to a foundling, and Cusins qualifies. Moralistically sniffish, Cusins resists Undershaft's blandishments until the cagey old dialectician storms, "Dare you make war on war?" Cusins succumbs, vowing to arm the common man against "the lawyers, the doctors...