Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the women on the street are dressed fit to kill (literally), and when you take a closer look, you're not certain all of them are women. But they're friendly enough-they keep asking: "Wanna go out? Wanna party?" One lady who came to talk to me was stopped by a policeman who arrested her for violating the state's new antiloitering law. "Don't worry, honey," she said to me. "I'll be back in a few minutes." Two men approached me, looking real mean. Then one of them asked, "Where...
...school system (see EDUCATION); the U.S. Supreme Court, by contrast, was unsympathetic to a similar claim under the federal Constitution. With the highest U.S. court now showing reluctance to impose its will on other institutions of government, there is a broadening opportunity for judges -and legislators-who are closer to the people affected by their decisions...
...will have to be paid. Silent Movie is brassy, incautious, funny without mercy. For laughter, Brooks gives no quarter, and he disdains the small change. As ever, he is out to break the bank. He comes as close as anyone in the vicinity to succeeding. Maybe even a little closer...
...Queen Marie Antoinette two years ago, Gluck began planning to restage his operas in Paris. Although the pro-Italian faction there is strong (once headed by Philosopher and sometime Composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Gluck determined to make his opera even more starkly dramatic than before. The revised libretto stays closer to Euripedes' original, restores Hercules as the hero who saves King Admetus and Queen Alcestis from death. Gluck has tightened many scenes and rescored his recitatives for full orchestra. At 62, with 44 operas completed, he stands today as a master...
...long as the war continues to aggravate an already acute labor shortage, women will undoubtedly work in an increasingly broad range of occupations, but there are signs that this trend may eventually be reversed. The growing demand for closer regulation of the medical profession, particularly the new emphasis upon credentials from training schools, attended only by men, has already begun to reduce the practice of female doctors and midwives. In England, where guild pressure to regulate the crafts has been strong for over a century, almost no skilled trades remain open to women...