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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could lose her husband Monk (Danny Aiello) so easily. He is a bruiser who spends his unemployed days pitching pennies with his pals, his nights alternately neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel of an old Joan Crawford weeper. But in Cecilia's movie-house refuge, a couple of synapses in her mind clap hands, and her sweet, silly dreams take life. Tom Baxter suddenly starts talking to her from the screen, then hops down off it to escort her out the back door into reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Now Playing At the Jewel the Purple Rose of Cairo | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Dean of Princeton College Joan Girgus told The New York Times earlier this week that an "administrative error" was to blame for Randlett's being allowed to register without signing the statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Sophomore Won't Sign Honor Code | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

...BASIC programming classes and a well-stocked computer lab, where potential buyers can test-drive the latest models. At the Peterborough, N.H., town library, cardholders check out and take home low-cost computers just as they would a mystery or gothic romance. "It's a matter of survival," says Joan Zaleski, director of the Connetquot Public Library in Bohemia, N.Y. "You have to be an up-to-date, exciting place or you'll go under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Terminals Among the Stacks | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Many dissenting U.S. women Catholics, however, feel the Pope is out of touch. Joan Leonard, who teaches theology at Emory University in Atlanta, recalls meeting John Paul at a philosophy congress in Switzerland. "We were wearing slacks, and he was having difficulty with that, I could tell," she says. "He tried to ask us about it in a very light, offhand way, saying something like, 'Do all sisters in the United States wear slacks?' I told him that we sometimes did, at least when it was appropriate, on campuses. He didn't seem pleased by my answer. I remember that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Women: Second-Class Citizens? | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...four continuing members of the ACSR are: Milton C. Weinstein, professor of policy and decision sciences in the School of Public Health; Theodore Chase '34, a retired lawyer; Ernest Monrad '51, of Northeast Investors Trust of Boston; and Joan Keenan '45 of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACSR Members Appointed | 1/30/1985 | See Source »

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