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...Broadway, of course, every fossilized retread can take a privileged bow once a rainstorm of box-office cash has sanctified it - and Woman of the Year has been showered with a $3.5 million ad vance. As it happens, the evolution of a dramatic form is not that easy to repeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Supremely Sophisticated Lady | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

That represents the movie's bow to realism. Its comic spirit is exercised mainly through repeated shots of Field running awkwardly down roads and railroad tracks in heels of perilous height. The variant on this gag is to have something or someone upend her in order to show her tight skirts stretching across her admittedly adorable bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Detour | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...preserve sales, textbook publishers are beating a none too stately retreat from evolution after giving it strong emphasis in the post-Sputnik editions of the 1960s, which aimed at more and better science teaching. To enter the lucrative Texas market, many biology textbook publishers now bow to a requirement by the state's school board and include a statement that evolution is clearly presented as theory rather than fact. More significant, according to Gerald Skoog, 45, professor of education at Tex as Tech University, textbooks now say less about evolution. Between 1974 and 1977, the section on Darwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Putting Darwin Back in the Dock | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...corner of Bow and Plymption Sts., there's Harvard Pizza, with its "Help Wanted Experience" sign scrawled on a piece of cardboard in the window. Around the corner, on Mt. Auburn St., Cahaly's and Tommy's Lunch use pink neon to advertise ice cream, and hot pastromi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art Finds Niche in Square | 3/10/1981 | See Source »

...hors d'oeuvres and cocktails are reprints of an August, 1980, New York Times Magazine article: "Inside Exxon: Managing an $85 Billion-a-Year Empire." The men are a sea of blue and gray pinstripes; the women wrapped in tastefully muted tailored skirts and jackets with the ubitquitous string bow tie or large silk bow. Bits of conversation between the similarly Dressed-For-Success Exxon recruiters and the students relate to the topic at hand--but broadly, not broaching the specifics which will come later...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: The Right Chemistry | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

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