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Playlet No. 2, the most hilarious of the four, is one of those flirtations with sin and the fear of its consequences which has given Simon a particular hold on the fantasies of his prevailingly middleclass, middle-aged audiences. Mar vin (Jack Weston) has come West to celebrate the bar mitzvah of his nephew and been given the surprise present of a blonde hooker (Leslie Easterbrook). After a night of amnesiac pleasure, Mar vin wakes to find this houri, a vodka overachiever, comatose...
...accepted on a get-acquainted basis ..." With visions of the hoi polloi overrunning their dream resort, remaining members began to shy away, hastening the downfall of Tres Vidas. By 1974 Braniff had converted Post's dream into an open resort, and was making an all-out bid for middleclass tourists. But they too stayed away, preferring the Las Vegas glitter of Acapulco to the solitude, the skeet shooting and the English grass 20 miles distant...
Stoutly maintaining that she is "really very middleclass, very loyal to the man in my life," Black sticks close to her home above Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive. Along with the cultivated eccentricities of the public personality, she has the usual movie star's catalogue of modest pleasures ready for the press and her public. She fixes Chinese dinners in a wok, maintains a menagerie of six cats, and composes country-and-western tunes. (She sings three of her songs in Robert Altman's upcoming C & W pageant Nashville...
...conviction made themselves early enemies of the new regime; those whose service in the Vietnamese army or government or whose working for the U.S. guaranteed their arrest, their "re-education," or in some cases their death. Most, though they looked as ragtag as any fleeing refugee, are urban and middleclass...
...research so far has been narrow, concentrating largely on white, middleclass American males. But in "separate studies, three of the most important life-cycle scholars-Psychiatrist Roger Gould of U.C.L.A., Yale Psychologist Daniel Levinson and Harvard Psychiatrist George Vaillant-have reached some remarkably similar conclusions that add new dimensions to the topography of postadolescent life. The main features...