Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...argument over the pros and cons of judicare, there is agreement that too many of the nation's poor still go without legal help. As WVLSP Attorney John Kemp puts it, "The problem is choosing who will get help. It's like being in a lifeboat. We have more people in the water than we have seats in the boat...
...second problem is her son Homer (David Rounds), who has clung to her apron strings for 40 years, not without her complicity. Homer, a man of glacial agility, is bringing Myrtle Brown (Lois de Banzie) home with him. She is a girl he has known for twelve years, dated for seven and been engaged to for five, without his parents' ever having seen...
...Hollywood with her classic Picture. Arlen has more benign intentions toward Madison Avenue. Throughout, he keeps a civil tongue in his cheek; Thirty Seconds derives its effects from self-revealing chatter and serendipitous comedy. A production conference deals with choosing among camels, llamas and kangaroos. Then comes the grandmother problem. "It seems to me," says one executive, "we have three or four grandmothers that are interchangeable-except, of course, for the black grandmother...
...search for the right cowboy ends in a compromise: "not too old, not too young, not too cute, not too Sicilian." Two girls have to be found who can talk on the phone while doing yoga headstands. One is rejected as "too Procter & Gamble"; another causes a small problem when she arrives on location without a bra under her skintight leotard. There are also serious research questions: Do Army recruits have telephones near their beds...
...beyond fleshly desires; they have become too snug and self-sufficient even to remember the denizens of Zone Four, a primitive militaristic empire in the lowlands. They know the nomads in the desert of Zone Five only as rumors. But these separate regions have become united in a single problem: the birth rate among humans and animals has fallen off; a sense of sadness and stagnation envelops the lands. So the Providers who administer the galaxy issue an order that no one can refuse. Al∙Ith, the Queen of Zone Three, must marry Ben Ata, the warlike King...