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Despite evidence of modest progress, University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Frank Furstenberg, among others, is not optimistic. "I think the situation is very grave," he says. "Unless we take steps to alter the situation, I think we are going to have a lost generation of black youth that is ill equipped to enter the labor force or to form families." At least black leaders are now declaring that family instability is an urgent concern. "It has been the strong black family that is the reason for our survival as a people," said N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks at the Fisk conference...
...that figure would nearly double. As a result, this spring some low-income applicants, who in better times would have received letters of acceptance, may be rejected in favor of waiting-list students who can pay next year's costs: about $12,000. Says Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg: "I don't see that we had any other choice...
...belts and hub caps, the steel hoists once used to lift cars now support jeans, sweaters, shirts and skirts bearing 20 different designer labels, including Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Sasson. The gas is discount: $1.26 per gal. So are the threads: $29.99 for a pair of Diane Von Furstenberg jeans, compared with $41 at a San Jose department store...
Subtitled "A Sort of a Love Story," Still Life With Woodpecker tangentially concerns itself with the romantic woes of Leigh-Cheri Furstenberg-Barcelona, a princess from some made-up nation who resides in exile in Seattle with her parents. Having concluded that World Causes lend meaning and satisfaction to life (love had given her only an abortion and a miscarriage), Leigh-Cheri journies to Maui to attend the Geo-Therapy Care Fest, where she meets the other mouthpiece for Robins's thoughts, Bernard Mickey Wrangle, alias the Woodpecker. Wrangle, who has come to Maui to bomb the Fest, teaches...
...adequate performance, though even he cannot slurp, "I'm finding myself" and maintain a straight face Spacy Marilyn has little class and while Clayburgh's acting can be forceful, it pales beside her should-have-won-the-Oscar Unmarried performance. Candice Bergen is as gorgeous and haughty as Von Furstenberg at Studio 54, finally abandoning the revolting spriteliness of her Cie commercial persona...