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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Unemployed, but not unhappy—well, not all that unhappy. Former stockbroker John Bermingham and his wife, Carole, with Lisa, 11, Carole Ann, 10, and John, 12, at a hometown Little League game in Bloomingdale, N.J. Page 13.
Photograph by Jill Freedman
9 Sunday Observer
American roulette
By Russell Baker
13
Jobless, in the suburbs
“Some will shudder to hear this, but it is one of the best things that’s ever happened to me.”
By Paul Wilkes
14
The case of the hot pots—
an archeological thriller
An American student in Thailand tripped on a root, fell forward and landed on new clues to where and how civilization began.
By William H. Honan
16
Flying high in Rio
Brazil’s “economic miracle” is based on a harsh military rule and a daring program of “indexing” inflation—a formula that interests economists the world over.
By Bruce Handler
18
From fake happyendings
to fake unhappyendings
Does the American film reflect the (childish) society in which we live?
By John Simon
36
A free speech for the class of ’75
By Irving R. Kaufman
46 Letters
On Hollywood heroes, losers, agricultural grants, premature babies, rule players, stationary sharks, and scholastic testing.
66 Design
Allusions of grandeur
By Paul Goldberger
68 Fashion
For his whims
By John Campos
70 Food
For his sweet tooth
By Jean Hewitt
82 Puzzles
103 Endpaper
The Red-Herring Theory: Part Two
By John Updike
Picture credits, Page 93