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...that. Sarah eventually marries a habitual wife beater (because, in 1941, he looks "just like Laurence Olivier") and stoically takes her lumps for two decades. Emily wins a college scholarship, is briefly married to an impotent philosophy professor and then goes through several New York City careers (publishing, advertising, etc.) and a long line of lovers. When the last one leaves her, she wakes up to what her face in the mirror reveals: "a middle-aged woman in hopeless and terrible need...
...also the first and last time you are going to see the biographies of Clare Boothe Luce, Lucretia Mott and Janis Joplin on the same page. The next section, "A Share of the Power," includes portraits of women who have succeeded in traditionally masculine areas: politics, publishing, business, etc. The expressions of these women are frighteningly similar mixtures of ambition, confidence, and cold strength...
...West and for the rest of his electoral votes, he would have to count on huge majorities in ethnic centers in the industrial North--states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. And on the important "social" issues which might appeal to that constituency--amnesty, abortion, busing, prayer in the schools, etc.--Schweiker's views are in perfect accordance with Reagan's. In such a campaign--which would bear an eerie resemblance to Nixon's 1972 "acid, amnesty and abortion" strategy--Schweiker could be a big help...
Story's attack on Chariots of the Gods?, etc., is a series of bull's-eyes scored at 3 ft. Von Däniken's notions make use of ancient artifacts that he feels are proof of an extraterrestrial influence in history: the massive Easter Island statues, for instance, and the mysterious lines extending for miles on the Peruvian coastal plain at Nazca that he argues were landing strips for celestial spaceships. Story easily demonstrates that Von Däniken's use of details and overstretched imaginings are on a par with those of children seeing...
Like delegates, sightseers fall into two categories: the committed and the uncommitted. The committed pledge their free time to playgoing, concerts, exhibitions, etc. For the uncommitted, the city is an amalgam of gallery, stage and recital hall. Herewith a few suggestions for the unconventional delegate...