Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising portion of any publication is devoted not so much to what happened as to what presumably is about to. And not just in politics. Us magazine, a celebrity-watching fortnightly from the owners of the New York Times, promises "stories and pictures of what's going to be happening during the next two weeks...
DIED. James T. Parrell, 75, novelist who wrote the 1930s classic Studs Lonigan trilogy; of a heart attack; in New York City. As a scrappy, street-smart youth on the South Side of Chicago, Farrell acquired a passion for baseball ("my longest and most faithful love") and an equally durable horror of what he called the "spiritual poverty" of the working-class Irish "with their sad history and their great dreams that collided with the facts of American life." After dabbling in Marxism and liberal arts at the University of Chicago, Farrell chose to escape spiritual poverty by writing about...
...Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission have launched investigations, and local authorities are cracking down. Some people are suing. Few of the clinics are run by medically qualified skin specialists, but the trade is obviously lucrative. In 1978 Donald Underwood, an osteopath, is said by the New York State attorney general to have earned $1 million from his now shuttered Long Island clinics. Some operators are switching to a new ploy: offering to implant human hair fibers. But dermatologists warn that fibers collected from a number of people can provoke even more serious problems...
Some signs of rebellion over climbing movie-ticket prices are also appearing. When some of Atlanta's first-run theaters raised the cost of admission from $3.50 to $3.75 this summer (it has risen in New York City to as high as $5 for some movies), smaller houses in more remote shopping centers began drawing sizable crowds by cutting prices to as low as 99? for recent but hardly fresh offerings like Rocky...
...Yacht sales will remain strong but sailboats will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports Owner Klinger, people are economizing by "buying larger quantities-two and three quarts of skin care products rather than...