Word: chris
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of small-minded politicians," and Fonda accused them of "McCarthyism," a charge that was echoed by 200 other show-biz celebrities, including Jane's father Henry. But Brown's cause was not helped by an earlier appointment. On Hayden's recommendation, he had named Chris Matthews to the Santa Cruz County board of supervisors. Matthews, who had spent a year and a half in prison for smuggling marijuana, then appointed John Hanna to the agricultural advisory board in Santa Cruz. Hanna is appealing a five-year sentence for bombing crop-dusting aircraft in protest against pesticides...
Associate Editor Chris Byron, who wrote the story, finds such economic illiteracy to be on the wane. "Unlike Europeans," he says, "who avidly discuss the economy, Americans have long supposed that it would take care of itself. Only now now are we beginning to change our view...
...swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to their 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright stereotype--Jewish-American Princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl out of her misery. But of course they all surface at the 20th reunion...
...Turns." Each character has four important episodes--discovering sex in college, getting married, discovering problems with sex in marriage, and having kids. Each also has a quirk, a flaw in her otherwise perfect Radcliffe patina. Emily is neurotic, Daphne has epilepsy, Annabel likes sex and alcohol too much, and Chris is obsessed with a homosexual. By the time they get back to Cambridge for their reunion, these tiny flaws have created major messes...
Things came to a head in the middle of the first semester, when I found out about a story she had written about me. Ellen had been vainly pursuing the roommate of my best friend, Chris, and she showed him her piece of fiction, which described a very nice chemistry student--Ellen--living with an obnoxious preppie who kept getting phone calls--me. One day these two have a fight over the chemistry girl's propensity for telling science jokes. The preppie flounces out and returns several hours later, asking for messages. "Your friend Chris...