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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from funny to bitingly sarcastic. A playful bit targetting female images in popular media, from those of Father Knows Best to Charlie's Angels to Tootsie, comes only after a caustic routine in which cast members playing male children are told that because they have a penis, they can grow up to be anything they want, while the girls are told that because they don't have a penis, they cannot...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: Feminist Follies | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Although the initial growth of the organization was largely a result of Kamal Ahmad's work, Timmer says he feels that ODN has transcended the efforts of a single person and will continue to grow after its founder graduates. "ODN used to be made up only of Kamal's friends at different universities," says Timmer. "I think now we have institutionalized the process and ODN is much stronger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Network Aids the Third World | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

Indeed, Strobe Talbott, Time Magazine's Washington bureau chief, has co-written a work which probes little deeper than the magazine that employs him. But at least when Time articles grow wearisome, you can always turn to a bikini-clad beauty in the "People" section...

Author: By Stephen L. Ascher, | Title: Supermarket Superpower | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

Janis was reared in Orange County, a mecca of conservatism. "I lived in suburbia, in middle-class homes. I got my driver's license at 16. I was on the drill team in high school. I was going to grow up and have a successful career. Now it all makes me want to throw up." Her notions changed when she went to France in her junior year (1974) to study at the Universite de Bordeaux. There she met a young student in the school of architecture; passion followed, as did marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Everyman's Dream | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Canyoncito is on wild, beautiful land 15 miles southeast of Santa Fe. The landscape is dotted with adobe ranch houses and corrals. Chamizas with yellow flowers, delicate violet asters, sage, pinons and cacti grow everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: Visions Along the Amtrak Line | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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