Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tale in office construction is entirely different. Rather than being in a recessionary tail spin, commercial building has embarked on what may turn out to be its greatest boom ever. The burst of construction is being fed, in part, by the growth of white-collar jobs. During the past five years, the U.S. work force has risen dramatically to 106 million, vs. 95 million in 1975. Since much of the growth has taken place in the service and financial sectors, the demand for office space has outstripped the surplus supply created by the last big building bonanza...
Every South Florida schoolchild is taught the story of the founding of Miami, for to Floridians the tale has all the sacred qualities of a modern Aeneid. In 1896 a woman named Julia Tuttle came south to visit the charming village that was then called Fort Dallas. She fell in love with town--here Miamians usually add, "of course"--and wrote to her friend Henry Flagler, owner of the Florida East Coast Railroad, begging him to bring his railroad down so more people could visit the area. Flagler laughed; nobody would want to go that far south, he said. Then...
Even if his tale were something more than a pastiche of romance movie clichés-offering, incidentally, targets ranging from Saturday Night Fever to From Here to Eternity-it is hard to imagine anyone paying him much attention. There is so much more unplanned in-flight entertainment going on elsewhere. Up in the cockpit, a child is criticizing Jabbar for not hustling on defense. The boy himself is being slyly propositioned by marvelously straight-faced Pilot Graves. "Have you ever seen a grownup man naked?" he inquires in the same tone he might use to describe the flight plan...
Tidbits of such an odor would have caused gasps if they had been mentioned in private chats not long ago, or full-blown scandals if they had appeared in print. Today nobody bothers to lift an eyebrow at the seamiest intimate tale, not even when it is about the life of a President. The reason is plain: tidings of intimate goings-on have become as common as junk food in the U.S. In fact, the country has developed what looks like an enduring bull market in personal secrets...
...whores. Rhythm and Blues Singer Marvin Gaye has even turned the bitter themes of a painful 14-year marriage into a hit record album, Here, My Dear. Author-Director Bob Fosse has let it be known that his own life is echoed in his film All That Jazz, a tale about a lecherous choreographer...