Word: tempe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor Polly. She's 31 going on 13, a gamine klutz working as a temp, famished for experiences that will match her soaring fantasies. She takes photographs and records herself on videotape; she is her own and only pal, admirer and shrink. Polly (Sheila McCarthy) needs to find a heroine -- say, the supersoignee curator of an art gallery (Paule Baillargeon). Then she needs to feel betrayed by this designated goddess so she can finally locate her strengths...
...going to Chicago to act. "It sounds much more amorphous," Gasser understates. "I think if you were really realistic about it and looked at the big picture, it would be too frightening." In Chicago she is going to try to teach acting to school children, look for temp work and the ever-ready waitressing jobs...
...breed of temporary worker is jumping into the U.S. labor market: the temp professional. In growing numbers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, computer experts and college professors willing to punch in and out for up to $150 an hour are being snapped up by firms and institutions eager for their services but only for a while. Professionals now account for an estimated 11% of the 800,000 Americans who work each day in temporary positions. The top-drawer temps, whose numbers are increasing about 10% a year, are profoundly changing the $6 billion temporary-service industry...
...free-lance professionals see plenty of advantages to temp work. Louise Quintard, a 1982 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Law School works as a part-time attorney while she recovers from a back injury. Says Quintard: "This has been a godsend...
...What's the temp...