Men draw more people to the counter than women.

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

We've heard stories of people breaking down from the strain, of men and women working from nine in the morning until after midnight with no meal breaks, of location shoots where eight people were required to work in hot trailers meant for four. When asked he had any time off, one plaintiff responded: 'I forget how the day off was supposed to work.' These men and women deserve the basic protections of fair labor standards.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.