Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe. At any rate, it seems likely that sociologist Arlie Hochschild's The Second Shift (Viking; $18.95) will turn up in empty fridges, on piles of undone laundry and taped to "I'm long gone, George" notes left on breakfast tables. It is dire stuff, whose thesis is that in normal, modern two-career marriages, most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, food shopping, or enough other chores to count...
...course, most men have mind's-eye astigmatism too. A late-'80s father has a hard time visualizing himself tooling along the Corniche above Monte Carlo in a bottle-green Aston Martin, with a bottle-yellow enchantress in the passenger seat. Reality is deadly stuff. What men do is put in long hours in front of the tube, thanklessly exposing their eyeballs to radiation because not to know at work the next day precisely how the Red Sox lost yet another game is to risk career prolapsus. Working women may still spend three hours a day doing housework and their...
...certain color, I have not been that way. There's hostility sometimes, say, when you're making an arrest, one of the friends will say, 'Get your cracker ass outta here!' And I might respond with a four-letter word to them on the side. No 'Nigger, this' stuff or nothin' like that. I don't talk like that to people; I refuse to, even with all the 'cracker' stuff. I might grab a guy and say, 'You s.o.b., why would you be callin' me "cracker"? You got somethin' ! against me?' And then he'll think about...
...feeling was that if you're a decent physician giving decent service, that's really all you should have to do," says Florida ophthalmologist Robert Rogers, who has hired a business consultant to help manage his practice. "But patients don't seem to want that. They like the flashy stuff. They like to see your name in print. They like to see you lecturing...
...conflict, a little sex. Good stuff for a movie? Good enough for a pair of terrific movies: When Harry Met Sally . . . , written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner; and sex, lies, and videotape, written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Their characters are quick and engaging; they could be the thirtysomething folks on a good day, in a gilded mirror. As Ephron says, "People who live in cities aren't in car chases. We don't get shot at. What we mainly do is talk on the phone and have dinner." Her film and sex, lies serve...