Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who wrote the story, could-like most of us-use a million dollars. But he is no stranger to the world of wealth. His family tree included two millionaires, and Demarest grew up in England, attending private schools with "the peerage and the beerage." Demarest notes a difference between European and American rich: "Many Americans don't know how to spend their money. Perhaps it is in part a result of the Puritan work ethic...
...begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution, the senior prom...
...sledgehammer, even though he hardly raises his voice. His grandfatherly appearance-wavy white hair parted down the middle, rimless glasses, that ever-present pipe-gives him an aura of wisdom. His sharp political instincts usually keep him several steps ahead of his adversaries. Says a Burns friend, John Whitehead, senior partner at the Goldman, Sachs investment banking house: "He lives in a political world. He realizes that as head of the Fed he cannot operate in a vacuum." Indeed, Burns has been accused of playing politics-especially of allowing the money supply to overexpand in 1972 to spur the economy...
...four people in Molly tell some bitter home truths as well. The play takes place in the English countryside in the 1930s. Molly Tredley (Christina Pickles) is a fortyish woman with a frustrated and gnawing need for sex. Her husband Teddy (Michael Higgins), some 20 years her senior, is irascible, quite deaf and has always been impotent. His comforts are booze and the bantering palship of a spinster nurse-companion, Eve (Pauline Flanagan...
Dick Young, gifted, didactic and the senior baseball writer in Manhattan, forecast the imminent firing of Billy Martin, the Yankee manager. "Billy had the world by the fine hair, and he has loused it up," Young wrote with consistent, if unappealing imagery...