Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company in Oakland, extricated herself from a morass of debt by disciplined effort. When her borrowings reached $40,000 on top of a $65,000 mortgage, Chambre, who was earning $35,000 a year, decided that it was time to stop. "For four months I could hardly sleep," she recalled, "worrying about the trouble I was in." Her solution was to repay the loans by working seven-day weeks for more than two years and curtailing expenses. Gone now are the twice-yearly European vacations, the expensive athletic club membership and the shopping binges in designer boutiques. Gone also...
...Angeles, Chinese-born Angela Hom, 21, grew up in a sweatshop owned by her parents, where women's blouses were made. "When I was little, we would work until 1 in the morning, then sleep on the cutting table," she says. This year she wrote her senior thesis at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on garment workers. "This is my parents' dream," she says. "This is America. America gives rights to women that would be unattainable if we were back in our homeland...
...decade of this Sunday-to-Sunday routine has left Young with a permanently sore back and sapped some of his still considerable energy. Says he: "I thought I could go on with three or four hours of sleep forever, but it seems that I can't any more. I've tried, but I can't." He now sometimes takes several hour-long catnaps during...
...lives in the Bronx with her aged father, commutes two hours by bus to a job of up to twelve hours a day in a suburban restaurant. "I don't even read the newspapers," she says. "You don't have time. Once you go home, you go to sleep. Once you get up, you have to go to work. The only thing I'm happy about is that I can earn money and send it back to my mother. Nothing else. You feel so lonely here." College is not in sight...
EASTWOOD HAS ALSO STOLEN from his own movies. If there is one thing that never changes in any of his films, it is that the female leads are lousy. The young girl who prays for Eastwood's appearance and subsequently desires to sleep with him plays her role with snivelling mediocrity. The mother who beats out her daughter in the battle for Clint is developed only slightly better. The only thing to be thankful for is the absence of Sondra Locke...