Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month, only slightly more than the cost of living for a family of five in the box houses of Soweto. Average white salaries, in contrast, are at least five times higher. If Sowetoians are lucky, they may advance to such jobs as computer programmer or bank teller, not necessarily restricted to whites. If they manage that, they can join Soweto's minuscule black elite (less than 1%) who live in a kind of Nob Hill known as Pioneer Avenue with ranch houses, one or two cars, black servants, golf courses and even an annual debutante ball...
...Tired after a day of shopping, Laureen Bernstein, now 24, a Brooklyn bank teller, was about to leave a local branch of the Korvettes department store chain when a store detective grabbed her from behind. "Hey, you!" he shouted. "What are you doing? What's wrong?" asked the terrified Bernstein. She told psychiatrists later that she feared she was about to be thrown into a car, stabbed or raped. The store detectives suspected Bernstein of being an accessory of two Puerto Rican girls they had apprehended earlier for shoplifting. Even though no stolen merchandise was found on Bernstein...
...would much rather have written the best song of a nation than its noblest epic." So said Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th century American poet, teller of horror tales and inventor of the detective story. A vulnerable sort, tormented by melancholy and eventually by drink, he was infatuated with the mystery and dramatic power of music. Years after his death in 1849, composers-Sousa, Rachmaninoff, Debussy-found themselves equally fascinated by the music of his words...
...used to be with the old strapless things that you moved one way and the dress the other." Today's no-straps are made of soft, clingy fabrics such as matte jersey and chiffon. Strapless bras are rarely worn. Says Martha Ferris of Chicago's Bonwit Teller: "It's bareness without blatancy...
Face of a story-teller who has given...