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Overpotted and Overpaid...
...realize more than ever that rock stars [April 25] are overglorified, over self-indulged, overpotted-but mostly overpaid...
Dukakis has compensated for the loss of liberal support by building on middle class issues: balanced budgets, reform and reorganization, and stimulating business. By resisting the demands of the state employees' union last summer, he won the favor and votes of those who instinctively think public employees are overpaid and underworked. Dukakis came into office at a time when it was chic to spend but necessary to slash--and he has emerged from this trying period with a rejuvenated career...
Some New York staffers-who are not generally overpaid-have loudly objected to Felker's costly personal and professional style. When the magazine moved in 1974 to expensive new quarters on Manhattan's Second Avenue, the boss installed a gym. He also carved out a staff dining room (he had it redecorated several times) and installed a $25,000-a-year chef, who signed each day's menus "Felipe-Executive Chef...
...were fascinated by Jeeps, all things in cans from jam to ham, jitterbugging, frozen steaks, cigars and the incredible generosity of G.I.'s - who were paid five times as much as a tommy. There was also the legend of Yankee sexual rapacity and capacity. "They're overfed, overpaid, oversexed and over here," ran the familiar litany - to which the Yanks had a less quoted riposte about the British: "They're underfed, underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower...