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...Nancy Archer is the goofy, exaggerated incarnation of a character we know well: she is every Victorian heroine anguished by her own passivity, every sit-com wife stuck in a split-level with a Michelob-loving numbskull. She is the woman who has had enough -- Thelma or Louise, or Lorena Bobbitt minus a kitchen knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty-Foot Feminist | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...version, Archer ends up squeezed to death by his wife. Today he suffers a more harrowing fate: a lifetime of male-sensitivity training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty-Foot Feminist | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...them would not be filled for three to five years. Last week Detroit was again the scene of a sort of job panic: thousands of unemployed workers began lining up at 7 a.m. to apply for jobs that might never exist in a gambling casino that Mayor-elect Dennis Archer wants to keep from being built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobs in an Age of Insecurity | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...lopsided 17 points to complete one of the most amazing turnarounds ever. In a less noticed but important contest, Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit for 20 years, sought to anoint Sharon McPhail as his successor; she was buried under a 12-point landslide by Dennis Archer. Further underlining their anti- incumbent mood, voters in Maine, New York City and nearby Suffolk County enacted term limits for officeholders, including Mayor-elect Giuliani, while New Jerseyites passed a referendum that will give them the authority to remove any elected official, including Governor-elect Whitman, even before his or her term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Experience Necessary | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...race but nonetheless swept to re-election by a 2-to-1 vote; he has convinced many residents that he is a problem-solving pragmatist whose race is irrelevant. Mayor Michael White, a self-described "pragmatic idealist," won a second term in Cleveland. Detroit's overwhelmingly black electorate chose Archer despite McPhail's charges that he is too friendly to white suburbanites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Experience Necessary | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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