Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 3 this year, so mark your calendars. New Orleans, the ultimate party town, starts celebrating about two weeks early. The exclusive balls have long been out, but it's not too late to join in the drinking and gallivanting that goes on every night in the French Quarter...
...America in the '80s that means rescinding the sexual revolution of the past quarter-century. Five years ago, concern about herpes caused a similar scare, one that seems trivial by comparison. Now "safe sex" are the watchwords. The mechanics of copulation have become public to a degree unthinkable only a year ago, with detailed discussions in the press and on television of bodily secretions and sexual protection like condoms...
What does all this leave to the imagination? What quarter remains for fantasy, for risque comedy or high melodrama? Do big-screen heroines engage in safe sex? Bisexuality was a popular metaphor in '70s entertainment, but it is hard to picture a film like Sunday, Bloody Sunday being made now. Its sexually ambivalent central character would clearly be a villain. Five years ago, Beyond Therapy, an amiable stage comedy about bisexuals, was well received in London, but audiences at screenings of the forthcoming movie version are uneasy with it. Even to blase sophisticates, bisexuality is becoming ethically questionable...
...late '70s, and the rise has been especially rapid among the children the system was designed to help. Welfare mothers who rear children who in turn go on relief are a core element of the so-called underclass. David Ellwood, a Harvard authority on welfare, figures that a quarter of all AFDC recipients have received benefits, off and on, for ten years or more; at any one time they constitute a startling 60% of all recipients. The rise of illegitimate births, especially among ghetto teenagers, has probably done more to turn middle-class Americans against AFDC than anything else...
United Airlines announced two weeks ago that it would cut about 1,000 employees, or more than a quarter of the Chicago headquarters staff, as part of a program to save $100 million in 1987. Battered USX, which lost $1.83 billion in 1986 and fended off the predations of Raider Carl Icahn, last week said it would shut down four steel plants and lay off about 4,000 of its 22,000 active steelworkers. Something of a storm was stirred up last week when the New York Times reported that CBS, which has already pruned some...