Word: servants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart of the conflict is a fundamental, perhaps irreconcilable disagreement over the role of the press. To the West, the press is the independent Fourth Estate, watchdog of the other three, and profit-making servant of an informed electorate. To the Communist world, the press is an apparatus of the state charged primarily with educating the masses about state policies. Third World leaders may prefer the Western model, but believe they need a controlled press to promote economic development, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Observes Chicago Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick: "I hear the same complaints from the Third...
DIED. Julius Shiskin, 66, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whose monthly barometric reading of unemployment and prices measured the economic weather; of a kidney ailment; in Washington, D.C. A career civil servant, Shiskin worked in the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget before being appointed to his last post by President Nixon in 1973. Respected and apolitical, the BLS chief was reappointed by President Carter last year. Finding the consumer price index too narrowly based, Shiskin worked out new formulas to better gauge the costs of U.S. goods and services...
Celeste Chalfonte is the witty intellectual lesbian heiress, living with her beautiful young lover Ramelle in her mansion on the hill. Cora is her lifetime friend and servant. Julia and Louise are Cora's daughters, eternally at each other's throats and occasionally remembering they love each other. Julia, we eventually learn, is the mother of the narrator, a young bisexual writer. Evidently Rita Mae has now decided men are all right...
...American lawyer trying to cover up the fact that he has been embezzling the heiress's money, and balance with one English lawyer keeping his eye on the American lawyer. Throw in an aging writer of, ahem, "romantic novels and her daughter, a Washington socialite and her servant-companion, a Marxist, a Viennese doctor of dubious integrity, and the heiress's maidservant, all of whom wanted the victim dead, and you have the basic recipe for another of the seemingly endless series of Christie whodunits. The only thing that seems to differentiate a good Christie mystery movie from...
...role modelling aside, the most powerful impulse uniting these women's experience was their very personal sense of frustration and dependence. Katiti had sold clothes and babysat while her husband was in school. She had done it, she said, as a kind of servant to her husband, riding on her husband's dream. And when these women tried to stop living only their husband's lives, some of the most powerful, if unstated opposition would come from the husbands themselves...