Word: chicagoan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the age of four, Chicagoan Klieman had her sights on the theater. After her dreams of stardom fizzled in New York City, she remembered a professor at Northwestern University who had urged her to try law. When she said that girls did not become lawyers, he replied, "Girls don't, but women do." Klieman looked in on Manhattan's criminal courts and found that "the law is in many ways a lot of theater." After graduation from Boston University Law School and a clerkship with a federal judge, she went to work as a Massachusetts prosecutor...
People who make most of their major purchases from catalogues are often formidably well organized, and have to be. Chicagoan Toni Smith, for example, is an executive recruiter who is constantly on the road. She does all her Christmas shopping in a single day. "I cull out the most interesting catalogues beforehand," says Smith. "Then I do comparison shopping from one to another." From the ease of gift shopping she has learned to buy almost everything she needs by mail...
...does not have a single municipal snowplow, the first flurries appeared at the beginning of the afternoon rush hour, and immediately prompted an even more chaotic commuter scramble. Peachtree Street, the city's main thoroughfare, was hopelessly jammed until midnight with stalled and sliding cars. Mused one former Chicagoan: "I feel a little ridiculous being snowbound in 1 ½ in. of snow." Many motorists simply abandoned their cars. But Virginia Lichlyter, a graduate student at Georgia State University, persevered. Her six-mile commute from school to home took 7½ hr. Thousands of people were marooned overnight in office...
...most impressive thing about The Blues Brothers is its numbers: a budget in the $30 million-$38 million range, a cast of 91, a crew of 191, a stunt team of 78, and the cooperation of nearly every able-bodied Chicagoan except Dave Kingman. Elwood (Aykroyd) and Joliet Jake (Belushi) are out to reunite their band and raise enough money to keep their old parochial school open-and to do it they are willing to turn the Second City into an Indy 500 junkyard. Too rarely, the movie relaxes to let some fine rhythm-and-blues artists (James Brown, Aretha...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. John Paul Stevens, 60, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 to fill the seat long held by the late William O. Douglas; and Maryan Mulholland Simon, 48, like the judge a former Chicagoan; both for the second time; at an undisclosed location in Virginia; on Dec. 1, 1979. Stevens, a lawyer who in 1970 was named to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, was divorced last year from Elizabeth Sheeren Stevens, his wife of 37 years and mother of his four children...