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...opposition, including Friedan, 9 to 5, labor unions and an ad hoc group called the Coalition for Reproductive Equality in the Workplace, offers an equality argument with a different twist: under the California law, women are made equal to men in the sense that both can now exercise their reproductive rights without risking their jobs. In fact, however, these advocates are proposing women-only benefits, like those routinely offered to working mothers in other industrialized countries. Says Christine Littleton, co-founder of CREW and an acting professor of law at UCLA: "Sometimes equal treatment is what is necessary for long...
...loves God without hope: That would be ^ something that would suit me -- the monastery of Solesmes and Gregorian chant." He referred often to the monastic life, and seems to have thought seriously about taking up such an existence after the war. He did not get the chance. But his ad- mirers, knowing that the issues he agonized over remain spectacularly unresolved, may be pardoned for hoping that he did not crash but landed, finally, at peace...
...parody to paradigm in less than two hours: it is a journey few movie heroes ever make. But then, few movies attempt to shift moods as radically as Nothing in Common does. Start with David Basner (Tom Hanks), prince of the yuppies, a man whose smooth rise in an ad agency is not allowed to interfere with his commitment to the uncommitted singles life. Then watch as his aged parents (Jackie Gleason and Eva Marie Saint) separate. The father loses his job and health just as the son is about to land a prize account. Now David must face...
...ABOUT MEN. It's about women. It's about love. It's about sex. It's about commitment." Covering all major areas of interest for anyone between the ages of 10 and 100, the ad copy for About Last Night, the screen adaptation of the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago should, in theory, attract the masses into watching the romance of Danny (Rob Lowe) and Debbie (Demi Moore) flicker across the big screen...
...their readers, most of the editors these days are a bit more materialistic. The Phoenix New Times (circ. 130,000) was operated by a collective until Publisher Jim Larkin and Editor Michael Lacey bought the paper in 1977 after they had left the group. Now New Times has annual ad revenues of $6.2 million. Says Larkin: "We've gone from being a collective to being champions of free enterprise...