Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Country music, that vivid, livid mirror of America's loves and hates, reflects a growing target: the rich. Listen to Johnny Paycheck, folk philosopher with a gritty guitar...
Nobody seems to have any idea how much taxes he pays in a year, Bloch finds. All each person knows is what is withheld from every paycheck. The loudest complaint is that the IRS tables did not provide for enough withholding in 1978, so many taxpayers still owe the Government money, and that hurts. Some people simply do not file returns and hope that the IRS does not catch them...
With a $35 paycheck as their excuse, hundreds of Harvard students crammed their way into the Lowell House Junior Common Room yesterday with hopes of landing a job as an extra in "A Small Circle of Friends" which United Artists and MGM will film on the Harvard campus this spring...
Most students said the paycheck of $35 for 12 hours' work rather than the mystique of Hollywood prompted them to wait in line for two hours. "At $35 a day, who can turn it down?" Mark H. Hellmerichs '82 said yesterday...
That, at least, is the premise of Ron Rosenbaum's delightfully bitchy first novel, a tale of lethal venality among the nation's media mandarins. Rosenbaum, 32, is a former Village Voice staff member who protested Editor Clay Felker's 1974 takeover by ripping up his paycheck in the new owner's face (to which Felker is reported to have asked, "Who was that?"). In Murder, a Felkeresque press lord named Walter Foster loses his empire in an unfriendly takeover. Then, worse fate, he is displaced from his regular table at Elaine...