Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their joint career started around the time of their marriage in 1964. Working for famed Record Producer Phil Specter, Sonny found odd gigs for Cher singing background at recording sessions, and they got a job together at a spot on the Strip called The Purple Onion. After work, she would often ask Sonny to drive her up to Tony Curtis' 31-room Tudor-style mansion in the Holmby Hills and park outside its great cast-iron gates. Says Sonny: "Cher would pine for that house. She'd say, 'God, Son, I want to live there...
...that she has so quickly picked up the pieces of a career that many show-business Insiders last summer considered hopeless. To be sure, she had plenty of money-a $25,000-per-week allowance from Sonny, its size based on the fact that most of their $2 million joint earnings were in his control. But it was she who firmly refused his persistent and eccentric suggestion that they continue their show even though they were divorcing. It took some courage: "I really was beginning to wonder if there would be a future for me at all in this business...
...schools should adopt a sex-blind admissions policy "as soon as practical", meaning next year. Such a policy would probably not immediately alter the current ratio of 2.5 men to every woman, because fewer women apply. Harvard President Derek Bok and Radcliffe President Matina Horner issued a joint statement saying that the major recommendations of the report "seem to us to have great merit." The proposals still have to be approved by the faculty and trustees. But some Harvard officials and alumni are worried about the long-range consequences. They feel that the proportion of female students will eventually rise...
President Bok and Dean Rosovsky's statement on minority recruiting this week was their second joint statement of the last month--the first was in response to attacks on Harvard's handling of the Afro-American Studies Department by Ewart Guinier '33, the department's chairman...
...said at his press conference this week that the two joint statements are not indicative of any particular administrative trend...