Word: england
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrew Wyeth might summer there. Bob Newhart could run the colonial inn. Eastwick -- it looks like a travel poster for the New England dream. It surely boasts a trio of dream girls: Alexandra (Cher), who sculpts clay Earth Mothers; Jane (Susan Sarandon), who cues the school band with a hearty "Horns up!"; and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), abustle with her six kids. All are displaced, not quite fulfilled by their evenings together swapping naughty secrets. And when this comely sorority is restless, Eastwick suffers, with plagues of sudden storms and cherry pits. The women are witches, you see. And now they...
...other words, a man. In public, he snores like a boar. His jokes smell, and he does too. He is, he admits with the grin of a baby Hitler, "just your average horny little devil." With a capital D. Big Bad Beelzebub. But devilry in New England is not what it used to be. Women suspected of having sex with Satan are not burned at the stake; they are snubbed in the check-out line. And in an age when even witches are feminists, a sexist like Daryl doesn't stand a chance...
...quiet life until 1959, when Rinpoche, like the Dalai Lama, fled the country in the face of Chinese takeover. Rinpoche spent two years in India, then four in England at Oxford University, then moved on to Scotland to found a meditation center. In 1969, he relinquished his monastic vows. The next year, he married a 16-year-old Englishwoman, Diana Judith Pybus. The nuptial move drew criticism from lama quarters...
...names of several women and minority candidates have already surfaced. They include: former U.S. Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman Jr., now a practicing lawyer he has placed highly in past searches; Joan T. Bok '51, no relation to Derek Bok, she is the President of New England Electric and former president of the Board of Overseers; former Secretary of the Army Clifford Alexander '55, now a Washington attorney; and Donald M. Stewart, president of the College Board which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test and former president of Spellman College...
RODERICK M. MacDOUGALL '51: Former chairman of the Bank of New England, he became the University's 28th treasurer...