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Truck buyers are young-the median age is around 33-and about one-third of new owners between the ages of 20 and 30 are women. Joan Cheek, of Simi Valley, Calif., passed along her 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass to her son, and now commutes to her job at a hospital in a 1984 Chevy S-10 pickup. Says she: "A lot of women are driving trucks now. It's the thing." Cheek finds her truck handy for carrying groceries and hauling tree trimmings to the dump. She plans to add a metal cap (average price: $270) to cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pickups Make a Haul | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...movies he has seen, including one about a French chanteuse named Leni Lamaison and another about the title Spider Woman. Braga plays both, as well as Julia's girlfriend. Of the three, Braga found Leni the most intriguing "because she was a woman of the '40s like Joan Crawford." But with Braga around, who needs to be nostalgic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 17, 1984 | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...other Harvard players received All-Ivy recognition. Freshman midfielder Karin Pinezich was named to the second team, and senior defender Joan Elliott received an honorable mention...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Four Women Booters Named First Team All-Ivy | 12/6/1984 | See Source »

...gestures trouble some of her colleagues. Says Attorney Marvin Mitchelson, no shrinking violet himself: "Her style is a little bit rough on the edges." But others see nothing wrong with her flair for the dramatic. Noting that Allred is careful to keep her theatrics out sides of court, Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of the California Court of Appeal says, "She does her homework; her success rate is good. She is both style and substance. So long as there is not an equal rights amen ment, there will be lots of work for Gloria Allred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Color Gloria Allred All Rebel | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...symbolically restricted to role-playing and fantasy fulfillment, and his subjects snatched exclusively from the performing arts and inserted into a bare studio. Some of the stars are content to glide on their images: Makarova as a buck 'n' wing ballerina, Marcel Marceau as the eternal mime, and Joan Rivers in one of those flouncy $2,0000 haute couture gowns that on her becomes transformed into WalMart weekend specials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Color Red | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

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