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...vision out of the Norman Rockwell past. Dad, middleaged, healthy and proud, wears the smile of a successful Little League coach. Bobby or Timmy or Pete, a freckle-faced 9 or 10, crooks his slim arm and strains to pop that first bicep. To the side is a Betty Crocker mom, beaming at her new young man. And off in the back, pug nose sniffing in disdain, is Kid Sis. "Boys' games!" her elfin derision seems to say. "Showing you're strong. Proving yourself. Making a muscle ? eeeeeuuuuu...
...good deal more cunning than anyone first thought. She has potentially a strong feminist background: a daughter of the Depression, she worked in a munitions plant to put herself through Washington University in St. Louis. Feminists might initially have mistaken her for a kind of grandstanding Betty Crocker, but Schlafly and her supporters marshaled all the fear and uncertainty that trails every social revolution, trimmed it and turned it against the opposition. ERA would encourage everything from rampant homosexuality to unisex bathrooms, from women draftees in combat to women victims of some squalid unisex millennium. Cheap and scary, sure...
Place estimates that Crocker alone lost $700 million worth of deposits to the money funds in 1981. Says he: "We started to ask ourselves how we could compete with the funds and restore some of the customer relationships that have been eroded. We have one branch manager with a list in his drawer of 200 people who have gone to money-market funds but would come back...
Nothing is more deceptive about The Browning Version than the insubstantiality of its plot; it seems to run without legs. After 18 years of teaching Greek literature to British boys, Andrew Crocker-Harris (Lee Richardson) is being eased out. Unwilling to scuttle standards for popularity, he has settled for the role of school ogre. The students have dubbed him the "Himmler of the Lower Fifth...
...title of the play derives from the act of a boy named John Taplow (Bruce Wall). The one pupil who fears Crocker-Harris but does not hate him, Taplow brings the teacher a going-away present, a secondhand copy of Robert Browning's translation of Agamemnon. The seemingly granitic "Crock" is riven by tears. The reliably bitchy Millie quickly dries his eyes by suggesting that the boy is simply buttering him up to get a passing grade...