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...Costner and Duvall together--these masters of intense passivity, who know how to be watched when they're listening. They can do tough talk (Duvall to three interlopers: "One twitch, and you're in hell") or laconic wit (Costner as he spots a few other folks: "Country's fillin' up"). They make a terrific pair of knights errant, or maybe bachelor dinosaurs, enjoying themselves on the Western plain right before the asteroid hits...
...Women's Studies looks at how gender as acategory is constructed and how it is always underconstruction. You don't want to take man asnormative," Robertson says. "For example, thehistorian Joan Kelly asks, "Did women haverenaissance?' Women's Studies does not just fillin gaps but in a sense gives a fuller and moredynamic approach...
...biologically capable of having had these children. We have 50-year-old men teaching soccer teams." For both sexes, the benefits of postponing kids are greater financial security and well-established careers. What is more, there is no question that late children are wanted -- often badly wanted. Says Susan Fillin-Yeh, 45, an art historian at Yale and mother of a nine-year-old daughter: "At this stage I'm not battling to find out who I am. I'm a better parent now than I would have been...
...White House last week toyed with the idea of finding a temporary fillin, then discovered that it could not bypass the department's internal succession rules but must go through confirmation hearings for a permanent replacement. So unless Meese decides to step aside or Smith agrees not to, the acting Attorney General for much of the 1984 election year will be, by default, the department's third-ranking official, Associate Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen...
That Hearnes was even running was the result of a tragedy: the attractive, popular Democratic primary winner, Rep. Jerry Litton, died with his family in the crash of a small plane carrying them to a victory celebration. As a fillin, Hearnes, who had been a distant second in the primary, looked like a loser from the start. He had only about $151,000 in campaign funds for the battle with Danforth, who spent $600,000. Forced to scrimp, Hearnes served as his own campaign manager, advance man, and even driver...