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Nevertheless, the level of assistance should not be cut. The promise of Social Security benefits should be like money in the bank. The appropriate solution to the problem is a gradual slowing of the growth of grants for current and future retirees...
...Star's plight was similar to that of other big-city evening papers, which lost about 20% of their circulation between 1965 and 1979. The flight of city dwellers to the suburbs and the gradual postwar shift from a blue-collar to a white-collar work force have created an audience predisposed to morning papers. Today's reader goes to work later and has less time for reading a newspaper at the end of the day. Although television coverage offers less depth, it can provide much fresher news: many evening papers go to press before midday so that...
...widen her eyes to be transformed from a bustling peas ant into a feeble dotard, nodding off after lunch. Glenda Jackson has specialized in self-absorbed eccentrics, but, as Stevie, she makes the familiar lilts and snappings sound new. Through the subtlest shadings of this fiercely independent soul, Jackson gradually recedes from the viewer's awareness, and the gentle Stevie takes over. The film's movement toward American release has been even more gradual; it was made in 1978. Now Stevie is here, not drowning but sailing with two splendid characters and performers...
...gradual loss distorts conversations of the elderly
...centered and just plain hard to get along with. Much of that is simple prejudice on the part of the young, and some of what passes for senility has been traced to physical disease. Now a British researcher reports that many unlovable traits of the elderly come from the gradual loss of memory, and the embarrassment it brings...