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...middle, practically bulbous; to be pregnant is open physical defiance of prevailing fashion form. The usual course around these dire sartorial straits has been to sail into great billowing garments of soft prints that try to exalt maternity by sentimentalizing it. The expectant mother, shrouded in a calf-tickling Laura Ashley fantasy, becomes a late-Victorian artifact, like a sprite from a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph. A woman who wanted a certain modernity of fashion to complement a contemporary pregnancy, who wanted to be comfortable with her appearance and her condition, pretty much had to improvise, scrounge or raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Stepping Out with My Baby | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Harvard's Laura Kaye and Mary Hulbert finished one-two in the battle for least points given up, with Kaye surrendering 11 points and Hulbert 13 over the course of straight-game victories...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Racquetwomen Squash Weak Wellesley Squad, 7-0 | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

Crimson stalwarts Jackie Corrigan and Laura Kaye treated their opponents in similar fashion, scoring four-game wins at numbers three and five, respectively...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Tigers Surprise Racquetwomen, 4-3 | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

...left. Primo Spaggiari's industry and instinct have made him a millionaire. But as time drags on, and Primo realizes that meeting the ransom demand will mean closing his factory, he begins to believe that everyone around him - his son's girlfriend (the darkly sensual Laura Morante), a radical worker-priest (Victor Cavallo), maybe even Primo's patrician wife (Anouk Aimee) - is involved in the abduction. Conspiracy or paranoia? Primo says: "I prefer not to know." And the film takes no sides, instead allowing both protagonist and moviegoer to entertain each terrible possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Politics of Melodrama | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...Staley have monopolized the top two positions on Harvard's ladder this year, and captain Courtney Stimpson, playing at number six, is the only senior on the seven-man varsity squad. Then there is the nucleus of the team, a talented corps of sophomores and juniors, including Jackie Corrigan, Laura Kaye, Lisa Harrison, and Lili...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Squash's Finest Hour | 2/10/1982 | See Source »

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