Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stevens, 38, owns a roomy turn-of-the-century house in Providence that Ozzie and Harriet could have lived in. The only telltale sign of Stevens' activism is a 1979 Volkswagen Rabbit parked outside and plastered with bumper stickers like I'M PRO CHOICE . . . AND I VOTE. "I kid my friends that putting a bumper sticker on a car is the big political act of the '80s," Stevens laughs. She has maintained her sense of humor and the sense of commitment that led her, as a senior at fashionable all-women Wheaton, to tutor poor black children in a Boston...
...Harriet (Harriet Walter) is Snow's partner at the bookshop which they own, seemingly discontented with her simple role selling books and her inability to attract Snow's attention. She finally manages a congenial smile when Neara, the author of a famous series of children's books, walks into the bookshop...
...made between the lonely people living in a small boarding house and the pitifully dispirited turtles, all that is left is to witness the two thieves' metamorphosis, of course, never overstated. After Neara and Snow regain their long-lost youthful courage by plotting the theft, Snow turns to Harriet one day in their bookshop and compliments her on her dress. No emotional plea, or philosophic soliloquy. Just a couple of kind words and a coy blush from Harriet...
...group of orthopedic surgeons is threatening a Day X some time in February to protest the high malpractice rates. If they don't see these patients, it's no joke," said Melvin J. Glimcher, Harriet Peabody Professor of Orthopedic Surgery...
...ripen into his twelfth novel. His patience has paid off. This week, a month after being published in English, it becomes the first novel by a Mexican to be a best seller in the U.S. An imagined tale about a love triangle involving the American writer Ambrose Bierce, Schoolteacher Harriet Winslow and an officer in Pancho Villa's army during the 1910 Mexican revolution, Gringo has already been optioned for the movies by Jane Fonda, who plans to portray Winslow. How is Fuentes, currently in residence at Harvard, enjoying success north of the border? "You don't have too much...