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...breakdown of men and women in the study showed that women encountered more verbal harassment while men reported higher numbers of physical confrontations...
...rated themselves on how "constrained" they felt at night, from a scale of one (least constrained) to five. Women rated themselves an average of 3.3, while men averaged 1.9. Radcliffe Union of Students critized the report for not making any recommendations to improve security and for not offering a breakdown of the results by race and by Quad or river residence...
...Prisoner of Second Avenue. Then he moved to Los Angeles. Prisoner is his ode to New York City, a typical Simon comedy that catalogues the neurotic lives of Mel (Michael Achtman) and Edna (Sarah McPhee) Edison: boy lives with girl, boy loses job, girl gets job, boy has breakdown, boy gets girl. Assaulted by noisy cars, barking dogs, loud neighbors, and Valium that doesn't work, Mel and Edna step into the ring with The City and survive, bruised and battered but still whole--and still suffering. As Mel asks, "Why do we pay somebody hundreds of dollars a month...
Simon's study of Mel's boredom bogs down by the second act, and Mel and Edna's quarreling begins to grate. Likewise, Simon is out of his league when he attempts to portray a nervous breakdown; as a result Achtman is forced to rely on a farcical style when Mel snaps. But if, in the end, he and McPhee don't possess the passion to enflame the big emotional speeches in some scenes, they make us care about Mel's and Edna's ups and downs, triumphs and hardships. And that's no small feat...
...efforts to build an industrial base after World War II. Two primary exports, steel and textiles, have been hurt by slack demand abroad. Polish agriculture contributes little either to foreign earnings or domestic stomachs. The workers' strikes, set off by hikes in meat prices, added to the economic breakdown...