Word: janes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jane O'Reilly's report on the "Iranian Women's Revolution" [April 2] lucidly and sensitively covered an often misunderstood issue. Rather than take the easy way out and slur Islamic principles as the root of Middle Eastern sexism, she has demonstrated that it is the patriarchal interpreters of Islam who have perpetrated women's oppression. That practice, I might add, is surely not unknown in many Christian sects as well...
...nice, long evening's wallow in the junk culture; you send out for Chinese food or pizza, make popcorn, keep score, watch for the awful fashions and the stilted soliloquies of acceptance. But this year, beneath the usual wisecracks and show business sentimentality, there was more interesting drama. Jane Fonda, anathematized for years because of her radical politics and trip to Hanoi during the war, won the Best Actress award for her role in Coming Home, an antiwar film focused sympathetically on the suffering of wounded American veterans. (Fonda, who is relentless, gave half of her acceptance speech...
Klute. In 1971, Jane Fonda won an Oscar for this film She didn't work in Hollywood again until 1976. It's good to have you back, Jane, but Klute almost sustained us through those barren years. Somehow thrillers where the characters matter seem richer in atmosphere and tension--and Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan...
...Jane Meyer...
...funny thing happened on her way to the office. Every Chicagoan knew she was going to win. But nobody suspected the size of the majority that tough Democrat Jane Byrne, 44, was going to roll up over a weak Republican to become the Second City's first lady. When the votes were counted, Byrne had 82.1% of the vote-the biggest landslide in Chicago history. The political heirs of the late Richard J. Daley were impressed. "A gracious woman . . . a young woman ... a girl," stammered Cook County Democratic Leader George Dunne, searching for a handle. Sun-Times Columnist Mike...