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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last of his 14 Cabinet appointments, but then his choice drew much praise. His selection: retired Admiral James Watkins, 60, an expert on nuclear power, former Chief of Naval Operations and once a long-shot prospect to become father-in-law of Britain's Prince Charles (Watkins' daughter Laura Jo had a romance with the Prince before marrying an American actor). Watkins' last Government job was as head of Ronald Reagan's AIDS commission; he showed a gift for drawing agreement from people with very diverse views by coaxing a surprisingly compassionate report out of a sometimes quarrelsome group. Watkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: At Last, a Full Cabinet-to-Be | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Most of the younger attorneys at the Middlesex courthouse deny that gender plays a large role in their everyday routines. Jo Ann Stringer, another public defender, says: "I feel very grateful to the women's movement, but I'm still figuring out how to be a good attorney, not a good woman attorney...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: The Second Sex at Middlesex Courthouse | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...drawn into the earth, their limbs and puffy faces asserting the heaviness of sleep. His trellised roses are inordinately fleshy; his apples, red and bruised -- no perfect objects of oral desire here -- are solid as stone. He painted hair, especially the thick curly tresses of Whistler's Irish mistress Jo Heffernan, as though he were running his fingers through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Abiding Passion for Reality Gustave Courbet | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...less punishing or rewarding, because Lange -- any actress, really, in today's Streepstakes -- must find the core of feminism, of flinty self-fulfillment, in a modern movie role. No wimpering-wife parts, thank you. Just Joan of Arc in Levi's, with Silkwood strength and Flo-Jo flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part-Time All-American: FAR NORTH & EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Kelly Blanchard and Mary Jo Laborde also rode for the Crimson...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: No Horsing Around | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

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