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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parameters of their male-dominated world, Radcliffe women took advantage of every edge they had. "There was a lot of mutual exploitation," admits Alison Morss, describing the strategic benefits of a four-to-one, male-female ratio. "We prided ourselves on how much we could get the poor devil to spend on us," she adds. Despite the stiff competition a young man might find at a Thursday afternoon tea or an early evening jolly-up, it was still he who had to initiate any private dates. Sex was naturally a topic of great fascination, but few were brazen enough...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Not-So-Silent Generation | 6/2/1981 | See Source »

Profuse swearing and the demise of more than one T-200 racquet thrown by an angry Blue. Devil greeted the men's tennis team on its trip to North Carolina yesterday. But this unique brand of Southern hospitality failed to ruffle the Crimson's calm as Harvard left the courts with a 6-3 victory...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Burn Blue Devils, 7-2; Sands, Pompan Win Handily | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...number-four position, Michael Terner rebounded from his Wake Forest loss to beat Russ Gashe. 6-4. 6-3. while Warren Grossman in the number-five alot also exorcised his Blue Devil opponent in two sets...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Burn Blue Devils, 7-2; Sands, Pompan Win Handily | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Charlotte Laurier plays Manon--a brilliant, brooding, exquisite, precocious little girl with saucer eyes, dark peekaboo bangs and an overfull heart--so letter perfectly that the actress cannot be separated from the role. Laurier is Manon: a terrible angel of a devil, hungry for something she can neither identify nor locate in her drab, shabby life. Absorbed in the poetic fierceness of Wuthering Heights. Manon alternates between sudden overwhelming emotional outbursts and sulking hostility. She is entirely too much for her mother Michelle (Marie Tifo), a big-hearted, big-boned woman of loose morality and easy virtue, to handle...

Author: By Debra K. Holmes, | Title: Loose Morality | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

According to Jackie Cooper, 58, Mickey Rooney "hasn't changed a bit" since the two co-starred in The Devil Is a Sissy back in 1936. Directing his fellow child star in the TV movie Leave 'Em Laughing, Cooper found that Rooney, 60, "still prepares for a scene by cracking people up on the set with funny, sometimes raunchy stories-right up to the moment I yelled 'Action!' " In the film, Rooney portrays the late Jack Thum, a Chicago clown who struggled to support the 37 homeless children he and his wife took in. The role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 16, 1981 | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

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