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...these people inching toward work or back from it spend more of their income on retail goods than people do in any other city. This city is ranked 97th in what Sales & Marketing Management magazine calls median household after-tax "effective buying income" ($23,655), yet it is first in retail sales. New Yorkers spend 37% of their effective buying income on retail goods; Angelenos spend 48%. In 1982, in Beverly Hills, where the figure has to be skewed by out-of-town buyers, $143 million was spent on clothing, $72 million on cars, $96 million on general merchandise...
...unrelenting focus on Gaston (played by Chris Moore) is evident once the lights go up. He wanders awkardly through a room of amorphous red shapes. Gradually, the red cloth is torn off and the Renaud home emerges, but his disorientation in the still-alien household during this opening scene works to underscore Swartz' intention to keep the audience as close to Gaston as possible, revealing nothing to the spectator before it becomes directly significant for the central character...
...Every household in the fine suburb had several black servants-trusted cooks who were allowed to invite their grandchildren to spend their holidays in the backyard...a shifting population of pretty young housemaids whose long red nails and pertness not only asserted the indignity of being undiscovered or out-of-work fashion models but kept hoisted a cocky guerrilla pride against servitude to whites: there are many forms of resistance not recognized in orthodox revolutionary strategy...
...shared that pressure. But Alice had a second more immediate dilemma of her own. She realized that, on the one hand, she was too gifted and too willful to rival her mother and aunt in the domestic arena. She never had a serious suitor or any prospect of a household of her own On the other hand, she was equally unwilling to challenge her brothers on a broader scale. The combination of these pressures proved too much for her. Although he identifies other causes, her brother Henry seems to have summarized her life accurately her tragic health...
...country's whites are still far better off than the nonwhite majority population. The most recent figures show that whites have the lowest infant mortality rate (13 per 1,000 births, compared with 80 per 1,000 births among blacks); for every dollar earned by a white household, an Asian family brings home 59?, "coloreds" (people of mixed race) 40? and blacks...