Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That may be a reflection of how things are beginning to change at home. Although married men do only about 30% of the housework today, according to Joseph Pleck, professor of families, change and society at Wheaton College, two decades ago they did just 20%. Pleck sees a "silent revolution" in male attitudes. "I don't predict that we'll be seeing fifty-fifty any time soon," he says, "but a jump of 10% in a national sample is a big change." Other studies have shown a growing role for men in caring for children. For 18% of dual-paycheck...
Alan Greenspan. In 1985 Keating hired the current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, then a private economic consultant, to convince the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) that Lincoln was sound and should be exempt from a rule limiting direct investments in risky enterprises to 10% of a bank's portfolio. Though Greenspan wrote to the board on Lincoln's behalf in February 1985, the board turned down the exemption request. But Government officials who let Keating keep control of the S & L still brandish the Greenspan study when they come under fire. If Keating could fool...
...movie brings homelessness home by presenting it not as a cause for charity but as a recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic...
Maybe one of those soldiers could have come home and saved her from her sad, passive fate. But If This Was Happiness makes such a possibility seem unlikely. Barbara Leaming, who has also written biographies of Roman Polanski and Orson Welles (Rita Hayworth's second husband), argues that Hollywood's Love Goddess was doomed from childhood to a private hell of uncertainty and unhappiness...
...flourish in the current novel, her fans will be glad to learn, leaving two important issues unresolved. One is whether she was a real defector or, possibly, a truly extraordinary double agent. The other is how long Gloria, Samson's newly acquired young mistress, will be willing to stay home and baby- sit the teenagers...