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Still, Maureen Zack was luckier than most. She eventually won a modest divorce settlement and undertook a course of studies that led to a job as a computer instructor. Not many of the nation's 16 million so-called displaced homemakers land quite so squarely on their feet. Having worked full time in the home, they are often devastated by the economic wind shear that hits when they lose their husbands because of death, divorce, separation or abandonment. Lacking job skills, nearly 3 out of 5 live at or below the poverty level. Many more American women are vulnerable...
Russell Miller (no relation) was a bit luckier. His Bare-Faced Messiah, a damning portrait of the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, remained in bookstores only on a technicality. Although the court agreed with the complainant, New Era Publications International, a Danish company with Scientology connections, it found that New Era had taken too long to bring suit over Miller's use of Hubbard's letters and diaries...
...night. For her, there is no debate about how her family views soon-to-arrive Marissa. "She's my baby sister," Anissa declares. "And we're going to love her for who she is, not for what she can give me." Who is to say which sister is the luckier...
...much luckier when it comes to work. For there, as the film makes clear in its coda, the example of Alfredo is ever before him. Maybe the old man's business was projecting dreams, but the work was hard, hot, technically fussy and, as the misadventure with the explosive nitrate film proves, dangerous. It was essential for Alfredo to keep his wits, and his skepticism, about him. In other words, to remain open to fantasies but not be consumed by them. These are good lessons for a would-be director. They are good lessons for everybody. And no recent movie...
Ronald Reagan was luckier. He discovered a passel of single-minded, if not exactly single-armed, economists who called themselves supply-siders. They promised Reagan that he could cut taxes, rebuild U.S. military might and reduce the budget deficit, all at the same time. While the President eagerly followed the script, the deficit forgot its lines. Instead of shrinking each year, it added $1.3 trillion to the U.S. national debt during Reagan's two terms, more than doubling the total burden...