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...society with a not so distant feudal past. Changes are slowly taking place, but disciplined workers still display an almost mystical loyalty to their companies, and paternalistic employers reciprocate by guaranteeing job security. Leaders of business, banking and government are members of a unitary elite, and they have a snug relationship...
...Where were you in 1970?" Gloria Steinem asks in her introduction to The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies. If you were a woman between the ages of 18 and 64 in 1970, you probably were not where the FBI thought you were: that is, snug at home in your kitchen making dinner for your husband and 3.3 children. In the real world, by 1970, 50 per cent of the female population worked full-time outside the home. Forty out of 100 of those women had been divorced at least once. And the majority wanted to have...
Released just days before, The Long Run, an adept and insinuating work by the regents of California pop, had already crossed the ocean, penetrated cultural barriers where some resistance might have been anticipated, and found a snug home for itself. Besides being a reminder of the international power of American pop music, hearing The Long Run in Blandford helped to take the Eagles out of cultural context. It lifted them from the category of stainless-steel Los Angeles pop, in which they are usually confined on their home turf, and let their music stand free of preconceptions. It sounded good...
...radio with a dash of scat, a hipster backbeat and a lyric that truly glides, laid down in a voice of sweet rough-and-tumble. Chuck E.'s in Love, the most unlikely hit of the season, is fixing to elbow all the disco aside and find a snug niche for itself in the Top Ten. The song proves that despite all the flash and flack, disco still has a considerable...
...these tunes of unfriendly takeover attempts and vexing shareholder suits, the corporate board room is no longer the snug, overstuffed haven it used to be. Still, a directorship remains a sure sign of having made it in the business world. Few women have broken through the well-guarded boardroom door: only 276 women sit on boards of the nation's biggest 1,300 corporations. They tend to be concentrated in packaged-goods and other consumer-related companies...