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...savings drought. The baby-boom generation -- the 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 -- is in its peak spending years right now. According to the so-called life-cycle theory of savings behavior, people tend to do their heaviest borrowing and spending from their mid-20s to mid-40s. Then, after their children are grown, they start saving for retirement. Many economists predict that when a huge number of baby boomers reach middle age in the 1990s, the level of U.S. saving will improve...
Three heroines, living in London and in their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps...
...some come to visit. Glenn Close, who plays Alex, was recently approached by a mid-40s woman with her husband in tow: "She had enjoyed Fatal Attraction, and was taking him to see it 'so he'll never cheat on me.' And he goes, 'Huh-huh' -- this nervous little laugh." Sidney Ganis, Paramount's marketing boss, observes, "There is a fever out there. It is more than a movie. It's part movie, part real life." Adrian Lyne, the film's director, is amazed by its reach: "The movie is almost like a living thing that feeds off the public...
...would not have made sense as a man much older than that; he was 52 in 1977 when he played Reggie Dunlop in Slap Shot, an over-the-hill hockey player who looked 39½. In person now, without makeup, he might be a man in his mid-40s...
...striking controllers, however, contend that the supervisors are generally older men (in their mid-40s vs. mid-30s for rank-and-file controllers) who may have grown rusty at manning the scopes and who may tire once the initial exhilaration of stepping into an emergency situation wears off. Initially they were working 12-hr, daily shifts vs. the controllers' usual 40-hr, week. At week's end, Helms ordered that no control tower employee should work more than 48 hours a week...