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Elaine May's Hotline is brief too, but with all its abusive, foul-mouthed yelling it feels long. Linda Lavin portrays a despairing prostitute who phones a suicide-prevention center, where she reaches an overconfident staff member (played, again deftly, by Becker). May places considerable demands on her actors. For one thing, she asks the drama to drag, literally: after swallowing handfuls of pills, Lavin crawls around her apartment, moaning wisecracks. For another, May has contrived a tale that, in a compressed space, moves from squalor to redemption. That the ending works as well as it does suggests that there...
...Linda Fairstein, who has prosecuted such high-profile cases as the Robert Chambers "Preppy Murder" and the Central Park jogger case, said the criminal justice system has made great strides forward largely because of agitation and lobbying on behalf of women...
...Linda S. Doyle, associate dean of the BusinessSchool, agrees...
...national search with a search committee which included readers, library staff and scholars as well as the Director of the Advisory Committee for the Library," said Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson. "So [the committee] was a combination of people who use, maintain and guide the library...
...hunger and its particular dangers cannot always be seen from the outside. Rickets may seem like a quaint problem, or the answer to a trivia quiz, but school administrators still know firsthand what it is like to deal with a child who is not getting enough to eat. Linda Butcher, coordinator for health services in Oxnard elementary school district, a California agricultural community with about 14,000 students, says that before her schools applied for the School Breakfast Program, students would start feeling sick in the middle of the morning. Instead of playing during recess, they would lie down...