Word: janes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half of them. More than 100 people died of snow-related causes and for six weeks everyone else in Chicago had trouble walking across the street and getting their cars out of their driveways. The incumbent's diminutive challenger, a venomous former consumer sales commissioner by the name of Jane Byrne, branded the Mayor "the Abominable Snowman" for his lackadaisical clean-up efforts and shockingly won an historic victory in Tuesday's voters, raised on an image of "the city and brought thousands more to the polls than expected. The word this week in Chicago is that the weather would...
...progress of women in politics may well have been set back by her victory. Jane Byrne is mean-spirited, less-than-competent, less-than-intelligent. Her election will mean only the end of the machine's invulnerability, not of its influence in Chicago politics. The city is set up on a weak-mayor, strong-city council system, which with a non-machine mayor suggests a return to the feudal, pre-Daley years when free-wheeling bosses ran wild, getting their hands into more cookie jars than modern-day Chicagoans can imagine even exist. Some of the more wily power-brokers...
...While researching material for a new book, George accidentally phones one of Leo's prospects, an actress named Jennie (Marilyn Redfield), whose recent divorce leaves her, like George, resigned to the second chapter of her life, and being urged to date, by a friend, Faye (Jane A. Johnston). Intrigued by their mutual reluctance to get involved, Jennie and George meet, discover their minds--work in the same rhythm," and marry, all in the space of a few weeks. Despite the misgivings of their matchmakers, Jennie feels certain she has love enough for both of them, "I'll take whatever...
...buffs there are excerpts from the 1972 novel The Gods Themselves and the award-winning robot story The Bicentennial Man. For those who prefer Asimov's other talents, there are such tours de force as an introduction to binary numbers; an explanation, in language that even Dick and Jane can follow, of why it is possible (but not practical) to reverse the basic nuclear reaction and convert energy into matter; some witty Asimovian annotations on Shakespeare, the Bible and the poetry of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Byron; as lagniappe, he throws in a few limericks of the type...
...Live Action, are disturbing collages of live action film, rotoscoping, photography, freehand drawing, and photography of photography, with radical feminism and black humor. Soul's How the Hell Are You? is also based on letters and postcards from a homosexual male on the cosmopolitan circuit to his friend Jane who stays home. He's on his way to key West, where he'll lie on Tennessee Williams' lawn until he comes out: "His doctors told him he should move to Key West and live like a crocodile." He loves London, even though that's where he finds...