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...that women, even sexually active ones, undergo a transformation at the altar that is born largely of reading too many happily-ever-after fairy tales. They abandon their true needs and desires to don the robes of sexlessness, self-sacrifice and self-denial. "The Perfect Wife, is, of course, Donna Reed," Heyn writes. "Her virtue exists in direct proportion to how much of her self is whittled away." Having dampened her "visceral, honest, unshaped and uncontrolled responses," the American wife begins to feel like a shadow or zombie. To retrieve her personhood, she understandably takes a lover. Suddenly, she feels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of Donna Reed | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

Genzyme spokesperson Donna L. Lavoie says the company decided to build its corporate headquarters in Allston because Cambridge did not present the best real estate option...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Business | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

DeLone--who has practiced and competed alone for most of her tennis career--is the consummate team player. During her much-hyped year at Harvard, she never became the prima donna someone of her talent easily could have been...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Bright Star Goes Big Time | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

WILL THIS MADNESS NEVER END? ANOTHer ratings "sweeps," another torrent of tawdry TV movies about women being brutalized -- physically, mentally, sexually. For sheer masochistic excess, this month's champ is CBS'S IN MY DAUGHTER'S NAME. Donna Mills plays a woman whose daughter is raped and murdered. The sleazebag is acquitted on an insanity defense so ludicrous that the mental institution where he is sent lets him go. This is too much for Mom to bear, so she tracks down the guy and shoots him -- then has to stand trial herself. It's overwrought and unbelievable, but watchable because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 11, 1992 | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...haven't had the opportunity to meet any Donna Rices yet," says Aronberg...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: White House Bound? | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

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