Word: menials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was always plenty of work for black people in the garment center, almost all of it menial. But black designers were rare-and might still be had not the garment district been in economic doldrums for the past few years. To recapture the interest of hip young customers, the moguls of the apparel industry have been turning to younger designers, both black and white-and, some blacks say, ripping off the flamboyant styles that have long been part of ghetto life. Says Susan Taylor, black fashion editor of Essence magazine: "I could swear that the white folks on Seventh...
...handsomest of the lot. It has the same storybook gusto and bizarre pageantry as the original. The setting is the America of 1991, when a mysterious virus has wiped out all household pets. Apes have taken the place of dogs and cats and have been trained to perform menial tasks (filing, sweeping up, waiting on tables). They are treated like slaves by a repressive government until one of them, named Caesar, leads an open revolt. Scenarist Paul Dehn sometimes lets his satire turn into sermonizing, but he also engineers a clever and jauntily cynical reversal of sympathies whereby audiences cheer...
...four and 38. At Jones & Laughlin Steel's Pittsburgh works, job cuts have bred a strange situation: some high-seniority steelworkers have been kept on only by being bumped to the lower-paying plant cafeteria, where they have replaced waitresses who in turn have been shunted to menial jobs in the mill so that the lowest-seniority workers could...
...sent out to buy coffee, cigarettes and the like. A secretary is both a necessity and a comforting luxury for many executives, who are terror-stricken at the prospect of having to do without one. But she certainly should be encouraged to do much more than menial jobs and be given a better chance to get ahead in the company...
...that post-Pill America is heading for an androgynous condition in which men and women will be free of sexually determined roles. Author Bird has been trained in economy, and she is at her best following a series of Harvard Business School girls job hunting (most of them got menial offers), or getting down to cases as she explodes the myth that women "own" the U.S. A sober antidote for anyone who still thinks that women who demand total "equity" are likely to froth at the mouth...