Word: quits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paramount aim of life," writes Barsky. In fact, keeping fit has become "quasi-religious" for some Americans, says Boston University Sociologist Peter Berger. With evangelistic fervor, Body-Building Impresario Jack La Lanne, 73, whose name adorns 60 health clubs on the East and West coasts, declares, "When you quit exercising, you let go. The devil will...
...refugee visas, more than the total for all 1987. Many Armenians who were planning to leave the U.S.S.R. in a few weeks risk having their Soviet exit visas expire before the U.S. again opens its doors. Said a distraught emigrant: "We moved out of our apartments and quit our jobs...
...been wounded. And they began to realize why he was that way." In 1985 the increasingly visible star walked off with an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a drama series and the next year won a Golden Globe as well. Though he has no plans to quit Vice, he agrees with critics who say that the quality of the scripts has deteriorated. Says he: "The show was victimized by its success...
...side world. Others like the colorful road names and don't-look-back life-style. Hopkins is "Santa Fe Bo." Tudor Williams is "Wanderin' Wills." Real hoboes they know include a man named "Wild, Wild Wes," who rides with a crow perched on his shoulder, and "Pepsodent Pete," who quit dentistry for the rails. Then there are those who may be starting the life. Thad ("Thunder") Thorton, 22, sits by the Colorado River and talks of being a late child of parents who died early. "I'm not so lonely out here," he says quietly. Thorton left Tulsa last October...
Trying to combine a family life with a career, many women choose entrepreneurship as a way of gaining some control over their schedules. Phyllis Gillis, for example, quit her night job as a waitress in 1982 and started Entrepreneurial Communications, a Princeton public relations firm, so that she could spend more time with her six-year-old son. Says Gillis, author of the 1984 book Entrepreneurial Mothers: "I was willing to spin my wheels for a while and grow my company slowly while my son was small. Now it's full speed ahead...