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...kill each other. The format of their show is simple. For each film (four are reviewed in a typical half-hour, plus an extra segment on videocassette releases), one of the pair will introduce clips, describe the plot and give a capsule review. Then comes an ad-lib passage in which the other offers his comments or rebuttal. The cross talk often gets testy. After the two disagreed about Susan Seidelman's comedy Making Mr. Right, Ebert concluded defiantly, "I enjoyed myself from beginning to end." Replied Siskel: "You usually do enjoy yourself; it's the film I didn...
...perhaps a bigotry clause or two in the charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were thought of just as clones of each other." Says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston: "It was an embarrassment to be a member of a fraternity...
...STORY TURNS on Beatrice-Joanna's revolt against her father's attempt to marry her to a man she detests, by arranging for his murder. As Brustein painstakingly pointed out in his program notes, contemporary (ie. post-Woman's Lib) theatregoers should be deeply moved to witness a woman destroyed at the hands of her domineering father. True enough: Beatrice-Joanna's undoing ought to give this play its resonance; we should sympathize with her dilemma while simultaneously celebrating the fact that it could not happen in the 1980s...
agitating over abortion, school prayer, pornography, gay lib...
...handles herself, sort of take it or leave it," says Kim Thomson, 17, a Wanna Be in Houston. "She's sexy but she doesn't need men, really. She's kind of there by herself." Says Teresa Hajdik, also 17: "She gives us ideas. It's really women's lib, not being afraid of what guys think...