Word: todays
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...workers' productivity. When productivity slackens, real labor costs go up, and companies often make up the difference by increasing the prices of their products. The cost of living rose 5.9% this year and has gone up by 20% since 1964. The dollar of that year is worth only 84¢ today...
...price of medical care-doctors' bills, hospital services and drugs-rose by 5%. In Boston, a hospital bed could cost $85 a day, $10 more than last year, and the price of dental care advanced from $6 or $7 per filling a year ago to $9 to $10 today. Even aspirins were up, from 89? to 98? per 100 tablets. A mouthwash named Binaca cost 29? when it was introduced by a Swiss company five years ago; it has since been taken over by a U.S. firm-and now sells for 79? in some places...
Cactus Flower answers one of the less pressing but more engaging questions facing America today: Can Laugh-In's Goldie Hawn really act? Yes, she can, and so can Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman. With that kind of cast, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue could serve as a script, and Cactus Flower is far more than that. Director Gene Saks is no Billy Wilder, but Wilder's collaborator I.A.L. Diamond (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) is still I.A.L. Diamond, and he knows funny lines when he writes them. Ornamenting Abe Burrows' stage hit (itself an adaptation...
Iago and Clive. Following the four boys and the colonel, the author explores the minds of troubled youth and the sexual and emotional problems of their parents. He also probes the impact of such contemporary events as the Viet Nam War and the cultural anomie that characterizes today's generation gap. In the hands of Clive, even the philosophical jargon of youth becomes a powerful weapon. "The Turks like things broken and helpless. Destruction is a form of possession," he observes in an Iago-like attempt to dominate the inquisitive colonel. "War is the great sexual game. You could...
...been generations since Gibbon's masterpiece was regarded as definitive. The Greek scholar Richard Person once wittily observed: "Nor does his humanity ever slumber unless when women are ravished or the Christians persecuted." Today's scholars are more likely to complain that Gibbon was weak on the Byzantine and that he was most responsive to Romans like the Augustans, who resembled himself: "Urbane, accomplished, and occasionally a trifle pompous," as Peter Quennell put it in a Gibbon profile. Despite his limits, unpredictably, erratically, marvelously, Gibbon and Rome did go together. "Gibbon is a kind of bridge," Thomas Carlyle...