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...Cortez family is taking part in one of the costliest and most studied corporate benefits to emerge in the past few years: child care. Says Dana Friedman, senior research fellow at the Work & Family Information Center: "Corporate-sponsored day care is this decade's hottest new employee perquisite." An estimated 1,000 companies now provide child-care assistance to parents, double the number of two years ago. The need springs from such major social changes as the increase in single parents and the continuing movement of women into the work force. In 1970, two-thirds of U.S. women with...
...muscled in. Last May, the US. Olympic water polo team-including Terry Schroeder, 25, male model for the controversial nude sculpture at the entrance to the Los Angeles Coliseum-posed poolside at Pepperdine University to raise money for the team. The 15-man picture turned out to be the hottest pinup poster of the Summer Games. Priced at $5 each, the first batch of 10,000 quickly sold out, the second is nearly gone, and there are plans for a third printing. "We've had to set up an 800 line to handle the requests," burbles the team...
Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, a homage to trains, with lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, is (surprise!) the season's hottest ticket. It is also just about a total bust. For this multimedia combo of Rollerball and The Little Engine That Could, Designer John Napier has ramped and revamped the huge Apollo Victoria Theater, allowing the young cast room to roller-skate through three levels of the audience. But all the amplified sound and whirling energy cannot hide the show's vacuity. The story line is repetitive and inconsequential; Trevor Nunn's staging is an elephantine parody...
Fans this year are expected to fork out about $750 million to buy 22 million copies of what is turning out to be the hottest board game in history. That is more than twice as much as the total amount paid last year for all board games, including Trivial Pursuit. As a result of those extraordinary sales, Selchow & Righter, the American manufacturer, which is headed by Richard Selchow, has doubled its staff, started a new line of products and reorganized its headquarters...
There would be no question of just skipping to the highlights: since 1978, when Warner Bros. Records released his first album when he was 17, for Prince it has been highlights all the way. For You was not the hottest seller in the stores, but the fact that Prince had written, produced and played all the instruments on his first effort got the press making comparisons to Stevie Wonder. There were four more albums and a wonderful grab bag of singles like When You Were Mine and Little Red Corvette. Now there is Purple Rain, a No. 1 sound-track...