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...term "Yuppie" has caught on because it describes young, urban, white-collar workers on their way up the corporate ladder without mentioning money directly. Money is implied. Sure, a Yuppie couple may be strapped for cash like the rest of us, but it's not because their salaries are low--it's because they're making payments on the condo, the late model Le Car and the slightly older Loyota, any number of credit card bills for woks and cursinarts and Marimekko sheets, membership fees at the Racquet and Tennis Club, and probably psychotherapy bills. Professional translates into making...
...also hell. In order to paint it, Beckmann developed a repertory of figures that seem literally imprisoned by the limits of the canvas. The sense of dislocation and implacable graphic firmness this involved, in works like The Dream, 1921, was surpassed by no other artist. The amputee on a ladder with the fish slung round his neck, the war veteran blowing his tin trumpet, the catatonic blond girl--in their mingled density and strangeness, they seem like quotations from some permanent layer of German consciousness. All the more so because Beckmann thought very hard about his own cultural heritage...
...most stores, the majority of buyers are yuppies who want to shine up that fresh-faced look for their race up the ladder. "My father thinks it's awful. He uses Ivory," says John Gormley, 26, who is working for his architecture degree at the University of Texas at Arlington. "But it seems like in my age group everybody is using a lot of men's skin-care products." Blacks are among the most enthusiastic fans. J-Christopher Phelps, 22, a Chicago modern dancer, started with a shave cream to reduce the irritation of razor bumps, a curse...
With the addition of freshmen Rusty Ball and Durius Pandole, the racquetmen have the making of a veritable powerhouse. Ball is looking particularly strong in practice and could challenge some of the more experienced players for a high spot on the ladder...
...last Saturday's victory over Trinity, the bottom half of the ladder had little trouble with the opposition...