Word: gail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walkman, with its imitators, is a product defining its time, the way television focused the style of the late '50s. Says Detroit Psychologist Gail Parker: "The growth of these things is another result of the 'me society.' These machines are very selfish. When someone is involved in loud music, they're sending out a signal to the rest of the world to be left alone." Pinstriped Businessman Wade Schilders, 24, listening to Dvorak in midtown Manhattan, hits his "hot line" (allowing intrusion by real-world noise) to disagree: "Some people say the gadgets are isolating...
...Congressmen who wouldn't want to vote for a Constitutional Amendment wouldn't mind voting for a bill," Gail E. Gabler '81, who is active in the Boston National Organization for Women (NOW), said yesterday...
...basketball team opened its post-Christmas Ivy League slate on a high note Friday night, launching a barrage of points against the University of Vermont to win, 78-66. But the following afternoon, an aggressive Dartmouth defense and a 23-point, 17-rebound performance from Big Green center Gail Koziara combined to fell the Crimson hoopsters...
Also: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard Kiley, Paul Newman, Jason Robards, Susan Sarandon, Gail Sheehy, James Taylor...
...last week, the Mary and Bill story had rated coverage in practically every major newspaper and magazine, several sober editorials, a FORTUNE cover and, the crowning touch, a gossipy, five-part series sold to some 50 newspapers by the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate. Written by New Journalist Gail Sheehy (Passages), the series unblushingly depicts Cunningham as an angel, awesomely gifted, scrupulously moral and out to improve the world through humane capitalism; it is laced with enough mawkish prose and gratuitous personal detail to make Harold Robbins blush. As the scandal mounted, for instance, Sheehy reported: "Mary Cunningham...