Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, Berke, give me a lightbulb joke anytime, I'll laugh along with the rest of them. But spare me your gross prejudices, please. Save them for your beer buddies. Go ahead and give them all the best lines--about how women who call themselves feminists are really sexually frustrated, overweight, undesirables who speak about hating men because they can't get near them. About how Gloria Steinem would look a lot better if she smiled a little more, and maybe wore a little make-up. How the problem with women today is that they're all too bitchy--they...
...alumni (this year's three Chevy Chase films, Fletch, National Lampoon's European Vacation and Spies Like Us, were among the dozen top grossers). As Screenwriter Robert Kaufman notes, "The studios know that one week of Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd walking into walls in Spies Like Us will gross as much as Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo during its entire run. And a film like Rambo taps the hidden rage of urban blacks and lower-class whites who feel cheated out of a future. They can't shoot Mommy and Daddy, so they watch Sly shoot...
...major cause of the political deterioration is the shaky economy. Gross domestic product has declined by nearly 10% in the past two years, and in real per capita terms now stands no higher than in 1972. Underemployment among the 21 million-member work force is estimated at 40%. Foreign debt exceeds $26 billion. These results may seem no worse than those of many Third World countries, except that the Philippines lies within the most economically dynamic region in the world. Marcos blames much of the country's doldrums on external causes. His critics, who now include most of the influential...
...events in Lesotho demonstrated the economic power South Africa wields in the region--and its willingness to use it. Lesotho is almost entirely dependent on South Africa for food, fuel and jobs. Money sent home by laborers working in South Africa accounts for half of Lesotho's gross national product of $670 million. Even nearby Zimbabwe and Mozambique, which are more developed, are susceptible to South Africa's economic pressures. Zimbabwe, for example, ships about 90% of its trade through South Africa...
Victoria G.T. Bassetti '86-'87 Night Editors: Noam S. Cohen '89 Kristin A. Gross '87 Joseph F Kahn '87 John N. Rosenthal '87 Shari Rudavsky '88 Thomas J. Winslow '87 Feature Editor: Joseph Menn '87 Sports Editor: Jonathan A. Putnam '88 Photo Editor: D. Jean Gut '88 Copy Editor: David Greene '89 Business Editor: John P. Syracuse...