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...lonely fortyish souls walk their depressions around London. William is a bookstore clerk who has shed most of his past, including a cushy job in advertising, his wife and two daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shell Games | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...Joanie Caucus, Ginny's roommate and perhaps Trudeau's most popular character. A lumpy, fortyish housewife, Joanie enrolls in law school after walking out on her husband and children: "He put his arm around me and said, 'My wife. I think I'll keep her.' I broke his nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOONESBURY: Drawing and Quartering for Fun and Profit | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...there is a trend no bigger than a program director's soul to be discerned here it is two half-hour comedies that deal with fortyish women trying to start new lives. Fay (NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) is played by Lee Grant, and she is a divorcee. Phyllis (CBS, Monday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) is a newly widowed Cloris Leachman. Both, coincidentally, are trying to work things out in overused San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: The New Season, Part I | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Laura Quinn, fortyish, opens her suburban Boston home to Jim Cogan, 17, the son of Bronx relatives. He is awaiting arraignment in New York, charged with involvement in a lunatic guru's plot to blow up the public library. His future is on the line. If she hopes to persuade him to change, Laura realizes, she will have to put her past on the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Generation | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

Lynn Caine has a bit of the style of the only decent character in a Lois Gould novel. Until five years ago, she and her husband Martin lived comfortably in a Central Park West apartment, making the adjectives "happy" and "hectic" synonymous as only New Yorkers can. Attractive and fortyish, she was (and is) a publicity manager for Little, Brown. He was a successful lawyer, specializing in bankruptcy. They loved their two children, aged four and eight, Mozart, fine wine and summer vacations in New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Goodbye | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

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