Word: janet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduates to real life in her next part but still plays a victim. In the NBC-TV movie The Dorothy Straiten Story, Curtis will play the Playmate of the Year turned actress who was murdered last August by her husband. The daughter of Actor Tony Curtis, 56, and Actress Janet Leigh, 54, Jamie will be dressed for family viewing in the TV movie, but will show off those good family lines in a racier European version. -By E Graydon Carter...
...local television rates next in public trust, at 69%, especially considering how schlocky many local news programs are. Then come newsmagazines at 66%, and newspapers at a mere 57%. Gallup took the poll for Newsweek right after the magazine's corporate sister, the Washington Post, got caught with Janet Cooke's phony dope-addict story. That timing may have skewed the public's attitude toward newspapers. Newspapers deserve better...
...degree from Ohio State. Despite Democratic domination of Cleveland, he won a series of elected posts: state representative, Cuyahoga County auditor, county commissioner and finally Lieutenant Governor under Republican James A. Rhodes. A penny pincher in private as well as public life, he lives with his wife Janet and three children in a modest frame house, and once bragged to a friend that he went five years without buying a new suit. He relishes his reputation for dullness; aides joke that he is so low-profile no one can ever find him. Still crushed by the death of his nine...
...editors who thought tighter enforcement of editing standards was "urgently needed" was Michael J. O'Neill of the New York Daily News. O'Neill then had to get rid of one of his flashiest young columnists, Michael Daly. Like Janet Cooke of the Post, with her nonexistent eight-year-old dope addict, Daly lengthily quoted by name an English soldier in Belfast who turned out not to exist. The point should be well made by now: it may sometimes be necessary to use a fictitious name to protect an endangered source, but the source should be real...
...Dear Janet: I regret that it has come to my attention that you were absent overnight from Founders' House without signing out on the night of Saturday, December 29. A hearing of your case before the Honor Board has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, at 10 a.m. in my office. If you find that you are unable to appear at that time, will you please notify this office immediately...