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...responded ecstatically to the new work. Wrote Robbins in a report to his bosses: "A major novel about a wonderfully eccentric mother and son, very funny and very moving at the same time. Sure to be the 'breakthrough' book by an immensely talented novelist in his mid-30s." His faith in Irving was backed by a $20,000 advance-plus $150,000 on a next book, sight unseen...
Makeup artists have been around as long as Hollywood, of course. In the '30s and '40s, when makeup was heavy, they enjoyed great prestige on studio back lots, but in the '60s, when movie stars were suddenly supposed to look like real people, warts and all, the makeup man went into a decline. A revival-the beginning of the Golden Age of Makeup-began with Planet of the Apes (1968), and The Exorcist (1973) and scores of films featuring a graphic spilling of blood and guts. In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, some 20 years...
...preoccupations. Soon Walker began asking whether any of the photographs stirred an emotional response. "People expressed feelings," he says, "and at appropriate moments I could break through initial resistance and get to the heart of their problem." One of Walker's patients, a man in his 30s, complained of chest pains and feared heart attacks, even though cardiologists could find nothing wrong with him. Walker assumed the problem was psychosomatic, but could not get the man to talk freely. One day Walker happened to ask him how he felt about the running horse photograph, and the image provoked...
...after hovering for years at around 5%. Even in today's market, experts are not about to dismiss the U.S. housing industry. High interest rates have made the market stagnant, but they have also created pent-up demand among the baby-boom generation, who are now in their 30s. New housing is currently being built at less than half the 2 million-a-year rate needed just to keep up with those potential buyers. Robert Sheehan, director of economic research for the National Association of Home Builders, believes that the 1980s could still be a very strong decade...
...smart, tough, successful and full of pride. He is, in his early 30s, a member of a New York police elite. The Special Investigating Unit has amassed an impressive record of convictions in major crimes-drug busts, police and other governmental corruption. He is, in the words of an admiring judge, one of the city's princes...