Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...care arrangements, needs can affect TIME parents at work. Nation Head Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy often fields homework calls on the job from Daughter Alexandra. TIME's Olivia Stewart drives from her San Francisco office to Oakland during lunch to ferry her daughter from summer school to the afternoon sitter. Says Atlanta Reporter Joyce Leviton: "These working mothers are the heroines of our time." Nadasdy rejects the supermom tag. "My success depends on my family's support and love," she says. Mothers are not alone in doing double duty. Staff Writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt regularly cooks breakfast...
...earn a sheaf of rave reviews -- when an audience's first and lasting response to his appearance is "Ooooh, isn't he cute?" His face is a posh prison, his smile a winsome rictus. Because everyone wants to mother him, or date him, or have him for a baby-sitter, nobody will let him grow up. He must remain harmless, asexual, a teen-dream Dorian Gray doll or risk losing the devotion of his millions of chaperones...
...show biz. Words such as network, rock, video, new wave, hit parade, album all turn up in Swedish or, for that matter, Arabic. Show biz helps introduce the language of romance: sexy, playboy and, eventually, baby sitter. In Japan, the English names for sexual organs are considered more polite than the Japanese terms, and pink is now the Japanese word for all erotic entertainment...
...applied to four or five. Gail Zimmerman, 41, who had visited twelve schools before deciding where to apply for her four-year-old daughter, advised, "Hang out at the school around dismissal time, so you can see who picks the kids up. Is it a chauffeur? A baby sitter? The child's mother?" And she suggested keeping a notebook in which to log such personal impressions. A few parents elsewhere in New York are hiring educational consultants to prepare youngsters for a 40-minute test, administered by the Educational Records Bureau, which many schools require for admission...
...bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon's elegantly decapitating style. "He had, or had invented," she writes, "an aristocratic European background, replete with 'von' relatives, a faint 'Continental' accent that slipped when...