Word: cosmo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become less central in women's lives. The authors point to Census Bureau statistics indicating that the percentage of women ages 25 to 34 who have never married has more than doubled since 1970. This is because women are not only postponing marriage, say the authors of the Cosmo study, but increasingly avoiding it. The old economic division of labor, in which men work outside the home while women provide what economists call "home production" -- cooking, cleaning, caring for children and so on -- is gone, and thus the "gains from marriage for women have declined...
...firm wins high marks for its lean management but lower grades for its treatment of employees. Top editors are paid well; Helen Gurley Brown, still Cosmo's guiding light at 65, reportedly earns $500,000 a year, plus a slice of her magazine's profits. But middle-level staffers tend to earn less than their colleagues at other magazine-publishing companies, and turnover is high. Bennack and Gilbert Maurer, president of the magazine division, pride themselves on giving editors freedom in running their publications, though the absolute power is not always uplifting. "Working at Hearst is like life...
Chan has been doing his job fairly and well for almost twenty years. He doesn't call it art. He compares his work to other glossy magazines like Cosmo or Glamour. And he's right--they're not so different. But how far is it from Hustler, either? David Chan's job is to see women as the sum of their body parts...
...exaggerated GQ-Cosmo style closeups, ST. ELMO'S FIRE (Sack Charles) overexposes itself as the vampire of the summer's lingering movie releases in two ways. For the obvious, whatever thoughts may lie within the well-posed actors' heads photograph as lamely as Dracula's own mug shot. Simply put, "Assume the Missionary Position," invites something other psychological speculation...
...collision seemed nothing more than a mild jolt. It felt, said Lady Cosmo Duff Gordon, "as though somebody had drawn a giant finger along the side of the ship." She started up in bed, but everything was quiet, so she lay back again. It was 11:40 p.m. Up in the first-class smoking room, where a group of young men were playing a last few rounds of cards, the grinding sound disturbed the game. Several of the players wandered out into the freezing night to take a look. "We hit an iceberg--there it is," somebody said...