Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern high of 122.9 in 1957. Moreover, the Government notes, the number of children that married women aged 18 to 24 now say that they expect to have averages out to 2.3 each. The exclusion of unmarried women from that statistic accounts for the fact that the expected trend for this age group...
Pavilion long maintained its eminence with seeming effortlessness. But when Soule died in 1966, standards slowly began to slip. In 1968 Stuart Levin, a graduate of the flossy Four Seasons, took over as president just in time to face more problems. The recession and the trend toward more informal dining, combined with Levin's reluctance to lower the restaurant's standards, took their toll. Last week, almost simultaneously with the opening of a brash new competitor named Jimmy's, Pavilion closed its doors...
FOLLOWING THE LATEST stage trend of religion-mongering, Arthur Miller has given us yet another modernization of the Bible, specifically the early portion of Genesis. Despite the recent appearance of so many productions on the order of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Miller's script seems clever enough-or may be just familiar enough--to win sympathy. In a Biblical context, somehow even the worst puns and the broadest slapstick can be funny. As a topic for comedy, the Bible is like sex: embarrassment or guilt provokes laughter where the mere humor of a joke might not. Needless...
...Square is becoming a high-priced shopping and restaurant district in anticipation of the estimated one million unsuspecting persons to visit the Library annually. In the past two and a half years, the facade of Boylston and Mt. Auburn Sts. has given way to boutiques, eateries and quick-purchase trend stores, housed in expanded and remodeled quarters which purportedly justify rent hikes of well over 50 per cent in some instances. There have been more additions up Brattle Street, and one of the few redeeming features of the new-look Square. Brattlewalk, succumbed to pressure from edgy merchants last Spring...
...first new Time Inc. magazine since SPORTS ILLUSTRATED appeared in 1954, MONEY will carry a comparatively high cover price of $1.50 on newsstands, in line with the current trend toward asking the reader to pay a higher share of publishing costs. It will depend less on advertising for its profitability than do such large-circulation magazines as TIME (5.6 million) and LIFE (5.5 million). Using a promotion technique new to Time Inc. magazines, MONEY is offering potential subscribers a free look at its first issue before requiring any payment. "We want to let them look without feeling the instant obligation...