Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LETTERS: Amy Musher (Chief); Gloria J. Hammond (Deputy); Marian Powers (Administration...
Feminist lawyer Gloria Allred shares Fleiss's anger. "To single out a woman for prosecution while a male customer is free to continue to act with impunity is a classic case of gender bias," she argues. Los Angeles attorney Shelly Mandell notes that California's 1983 pandering law was crafted with male pimps in mind, then asks, "How many men have been convicted of pandering in Los Angeles and are serving mandatory prison time?" Suzanne Childs, speaking for the L.A. district attorney's office, says such statistics are not readily available. Offhand, she recalls only one man doing time...
...Sunday Outing, by Gloria Jean Pinkney; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Dial; $14.99), tells of Ernestine, a young African-American girl who lives in Philadelphia and hopes to save up money for a big adventure: a train ride to visit relatives in North Carolina. The dialogue is shrewdly written; Aunt Odessa, up from the South, talks country ("You wasn't worried now, was you?"), though Ernestine's parents speak Standard English. The beautiful drawings show a warm, believable middle-class black family of about 40 years...
...Gloria Estefan...
...Gloria Estefan...