Word: walkup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combined $53,000 a year; he as a comptroller for a large Paris-based French multinational corporation and she as an economist for a U.S. think tank. She also gets $9,000 annually from an inheritance, but they show few signs of opulence. They live in a two-bedroom walkup, drive a small car and holiday with parents. Lacking the kind of expense account that allows many Frenchmen the Gallic equivalent of a three-martini lunch, they do not make a habit of eating out. Says Xavier: "I would guess that 60% of the customers in Paris restaurants...
...draws Les Frustrés at home, a sixth-floor Montmartre walkup she shares with her photographer husband (they have no children). Bretécher usually cannot face her drawing board and swivel-top piano stool until the day the strip is due. As comely as her characters are homely, she patronizes the same voguish boutiques and is occasionally oppressed by the same fashionable insecurities as those she parodies. Except one. "The seriousness and dogmatism of the feminist movement have become appalling," says Bretécher. The dogma that appalled her most when she began to sour on the movement...
...reluctant to team up with United; the firm took a $44 million loss in 1971 because of difficulties in making the Boeing 747 engines. But United Aircraft's juicy dividend and Gray's indefatigable energy won them over. Signal President Forrest N. Shumway and Chairman William E. Walkup will join the United board. Harry Gray, who continues as chief executive, will remain in the driver's seat...
Disillusionment with the traditional family has led to other alternative lifestyles. In Boston, David, 36, a divorced architect, and Sarah, 29, a researcher for a consulting firm, have an "arrangement"; like an increasing number of other American couples, they live together in David's Cambridge walkup apartment in a "marriage" that has endured solidly for two years without benefit of legal sanction. They sometimes join David's ex-wife and his son, Jonathan, 5, for dinner. Bubbly, attractive Sarah still maintains her own apartment and sometimes spends a few days there...
...didn't take the money for myself," said Ermacora. He lived in a dreary third-floor walkup with his wife and son. "For 25 years," his wife said during his trial, "I have worn this 10? metal wedding ring...