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...early 20s, she joined what became the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon. She was a hit as the lanky Helena of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a role played sooner or later by most of the willowy Redgrave women; as Rosalind in As You Like It, Redgrave gave a performance many still consider definitive. In 1961, when she appeared in The Lady from the Sea, critic Kenneth Tynan said, "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear of it." By 1967 she was up for an Oscar as Best Actress for Morgan...
...earn extra money. Under Deng's reforms, most state-run businesses and government agencies are expected to turn a profit. An aircraft factory in Xi'an runs a marriage-introduction center that does a booming business serving the needs of hundreds of well- educated women who by their late 20s are desperate for husbands because men with less schooling are reluctant to marry them. In Chengdu the Xinhua bookstore owns a flower shop, a hair salon and a clothing boutique whose manager gets his goods from "a guy in Shanghai who has good guanxi." In Shanghai itself the city...
...headless, handless body of a woman covered with green algae was fished out of a lake in upstate New York. The hospital pathologist who performed the autopsy judged the slim, athletically built victim to be in her 20s and said she had been dead three weeks. A few days later, medical examiner Michael Baden autopsied the body and came to a startlingly different conclusion. Bone spurs on the woman's spine and her atrophied ovaries revealed that she was about 55 years old, and microscopic study of the algae indicated that the body had been in the water at least...
...elevator in front of us. He was Black and well-dressed, probably in his early 20s. Two women, who were also Black, entered the now-crowded box and stood in front of us. The man pushed a button and the doors closed on the seven of us. We were lined up, divided racially in rows with my three friends and myself behind the three strangers. The woman in front of me reached over and pushed a button for the third floor...
...late 20s, still single, he decided to attend Harvard Business School. The curriculum appealed to him far more than Cambridge's liberal atmosphere. Watergate was nearing its climax, and Bush pere was in a defensive crouch as Republican national chairman. The son sympathized from afar, then decided to take his M.B.A. back to Midland, to learn the oil business as a "landman," one who researches mineral and land records...