Word: janes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drama is the one that deals with a man in danger," said Hawks, and the endangered men of his movies included such giants as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, James Cagney and Gary Cooper, matched with sexy, strong-willed Hawksian discoveries such as Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Carole Lombard and Jane Russell. When French cineasts made a cult of the tall, quiet director, claiming for example that he "incarnates the classic American cinema," Hawks commented: "I get open-mouthed and wonder where they find some of the stuff they say about me. All I'm doing is telling a story...
...doctor's office. Her co-workers -a working-class white and a ghetto black-initially mistrust her Eastern accent and sense of style. But Harry Argent, a blunt, flamboyant movie producer, is intermittently attracted to Eliza for what she is: "A sort of zaftig Jane Fonda," who needs not only a vocation but also...
Clearly, the people who believe that abortion is every woman's right are in retreat. Though she speaks bravely of a political counterattack, Sarah Jane Stewart, field director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, says of last week's Congressional action: "We lost, no matter how you look at it. Congress has been intimidated by the emotional, physical presence of the right-to-lifers." Adds Robert Webber, western regional director of Planned Parenthood: "The right-to-lifers are single-issue individuals. They don't care how a politician stands on human rights or aid to education...
People also interrogate the bureaucracy to determine what the Government has found out about them. After the exposure of FBI and CIA "dirty tricks," thousands approached the agencies for information. Celebrities such as Jane Fonda, John Kenneth Galbraith and Eldridge Cleaver took advantage of the act, giving it wide publicity...
...rivals for burying an account of the columnist's arrest last winter in a barroom brawl, an incident Madigan recounted in loving detail. The radio scold frequently delights in picking Royko's nits. The columnist last month reported that Mayor Bilandic, in firing Consumer Sales Commissioner Jane Byrne, had also fired her secretary, the mother of six children. The secretary, Madigan pointed out, was merely transferred to another job. Sniffs Royko: "Madigan is a man of deep and abiding faith when it comes to city hall and the things his friends there tell him. He is sort...