Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hartsdale, N. Y.' a young wife asks a rental agent: "Do you have any nice, one bedroom $350-a-month apartments...
...daring or desperate who bought two years ago are smiling now, but the cautious are weeping and wailing. Young couples are acquiring their first homes earlier in life-more often than before with family financial help-partly as a hedge against further inflation. Even with the new graduated payment mortgages that allow lower monthly outlays in the first few years, many people are dangerously overextending themselves. Says Norris Allman, 27, an engineer in New Jersey: "We finally made a decision that either we buy now or we would never be able to afford...
...York and Los Angeles, the vacancy rate is under 1%, and landlords are using the shortage to vet prospective tenants and refuse those with modest incomes. Finding an apartment requires tramping the streets and often bribing doormen. Reports Norman Kailo, president of the New Jersey Association of Realtors: "Young marrieds are beginning to double up, and there are a lot of illegal conversions of one-family units into two-family...
...stage career slowly, tirelessly touring the U.S. heartlands and Britain in monodramas she wrote and staged herself. Her self-deprecating humor and satirical wit found an outlet in light verse and anecdotal magazine pieces, plays and books, the best known of which was her 1942 travelogue, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written with Emily Kimbrough. She was a popular guest on radio, television and the lecture circuit, thanks largely to her flair for the bon mot. Sample: "A woman's virtue is man's greatest invention...
...imaginations. Now he has proved that even an excess of good taste cannot entirely ground him. Not permitted to parody romantic menace as he was able to do on the stage, Langella shows himself capable of playing it straight and slightly melancholic. Kate Nelligan, as Lucy, the young woman who enthralls him and is herself enthralled, is superbly spirited. In the film's early scenes, she plays the part as a liberated lady, turn-of-the-century variety. Once Dracula has begun to work his will on her, she becomes a resourceful woman fighting boldly for her forbidden love...