Word: gidget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggle to be accepted and find one's circle of friends can be especially hard for minority students, gays, foreign students and others who do not quite fit the model of Gidget Goes to College. Some campus officials are alarmed by the growing evidence of racism among today's students. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst became infamous for racial tension when an October 1986 brawl injured ten students. Now U. Mass.-Amherst freshmen are shown a video about racism and abusive behavior, and this fall's new students' convocation will include remarks concerning the "celebration of differences...
...people who are ill and who can be disabled by this," says the NIH's Straus. "But the percentage is relatively small compared to the claims." Unfortunately for the victims, doctors have few treatments to offer. Stress reduction or sleeping pills may provide some relief. For now, says Gidget Faubion, who runs a 9,000-member support group for the afflicted that is based in Portland, Ore., most sufferers must learn to accept the severity of their condition. Says she: "If you don't change your attitude, you're going to make a suicide call to me within six months...
EXPECTING. Sally Field, 40, pert television actress (Gidget, The Flying Nun) and two-time Oscar-winning movie star (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart), and her husband Movie Producer Alan Greisman, 39: their first child; in December. Field has two children from a previous marriage...
...symmetry. Zakharov, after all, was almost assuredly a spy, nabbed as he took delivery of material that he had specifically requested. Daniloff, according to all reliable reports, was most assuredly not. Declared U.S. News Chairman Mortimer Zuckerman, who immediately flew to Moscow: "Daniloff is no more a spy than Gidget." Added Daniloff's angry wife Ruth, after visiting him in prison: "The whole thing is an outrage and a complete and absolute frame-up. Nick is, basically, a hostage...
Field has been a well-known actress since the1960's when she starred in "The Flying Nun" and"Gidget." She won two Best Actress Academy Awardsfor her lead roles in "Norma Rae" and last year's"Places of the Heart...