Word: jacks
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...shortages are also appearing in the least-skilled jobs. "You drive around and every fast-food restaurant has a HELP WANTED sign hanging in the window," observes Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. Such signs also decorate the grocery stores, clothing boutiques and delicatessens filling strip malls across the continent. Not only are high sales creating many new jobs, but employee turnover is enormous. At these levels, says Mitchell Fromstein, CEO of Manpower Inc., the world's largest provider of temporary help, job experience, even the briefest exposure to hamburger flipping, is almost as sought...
...explains that "both organizations will be developing and completing their own story ideas." And the results won't appear only on your tube: this week's TIME includes an exclusive account of America's secret use of poison gas during the Vietnam War. The reporters? CNN senior producer Jack Smith, producer April Oliver and correspondent Peter Arnett...
...Angela's Ashes, Malachy chiefly recounts what happened to him after his arrival in New York City in 1952, when he was 20. He worked for a while as a longshoreman, gained a reputation as a hard-drinking wit and raconteur, became an off-Broadway actor, appeared with Jack Paar on the Tonight show, tended bar as part owner of an East Side joint named Malachy's and later, down on his luck, smuggled gold ingots strapped about his portly person into India...
...reverence in which he is held by his profession is unshakable. His sometime friend and co-star Jack Nicholson said it simply and best: "He gave us our freedom." By which he meant that Brando's example permitted actors to go beyond characterizations that were merely well made, beautifully spoken and seemly in demeanor; allowed them to play not just a script's polished text but its rough, conflicting subtext as well...
...Tender as well as works by Paul Simon (Mrs. Robinson), George Harrison (Something) and Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now). The results were often awkward--this is the Sinatra people like me used to make fun of. But listen with more knowing ears: when Sinatra sings "You stick around, Jack, it might show" on Something, you get the feeling not that he's hoking it up Vegas-style so much as he's rooting around for rhythmic complexity in a beautiful if simple song; he's a muscle car idling on a leafy suburban...