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These two regulators, Joan Claybrook, 41, and Carol Foreman, 40, were among Washington's most feared and revered consumer interest lobbyists when they, along with other activists of the 1960s and 1970s, accepted sub-Cabinet positions in the Carter Administration almost two years ago. Now both are in the news: Claybrook for engineering the recall of 7.5 million Firestone "500" radial tires, and Foreman for ordering cutbacks of nitrites in bacon because they are suspected of being carcinogens...
...those who made Erma Bombeck's book a bestseller, and I can tell you I am no canned laugher [Oct. 30]. Carol Burnett's character was far easier to identify with than some cutesie bleached blond whose only problem in life is deciding on how little she wants to wear. And Frank Rich calls Bombeck plastic...
Perhaps many American women are just not attracted by political careers. Other opportunities are opening in more secure and lucrative jobs. Says New York City Council President Carol Bellamy: "Politics has a terrible reputation. We're striving to come up to the level of the used-car salesman. So if you have some options, who's going to go into politics?" Why, indeed, would a career woman select a field in which she is likely to have to invest a lot of money, disrupt her family and probably end up thwarted...
About the best thing to be said for the film is that Bombeck does not play the autobiographical heroine herself. That odious chore has fallen instead to Carol Burnett, an actress who is often capable of extracting humor from even the most puerile material. This is one of her rare failures. Bombeck's stale jokes about crabgrass and Tupperware parties defy levitation; the cutesie plot is predictable to anyone who has ever encountered any incarnation of Please Don 't Eat the Daisies. Unfortunately, Burnett doesn't get any help from Director Robert Day. His idea of high...
Objections have been raised because some students who agree to fast then buy food outside Harvard dining halls. In doing so, the students fail to realize the significance of the fast, Carol Thorne, a spokesman for CHUL, said yesterday...