Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen before. You won't remember where you've seen it, but you've seen it. Probably on late-night TV, after Letterman. Or possibly at the movies, for in an inferior sort of way, Twice in Lifetime will remind you of a diluted Kramer vs. Kramer (the male version of what happens to a family after divorce), An Unmarried Woman (the slightly fast woman with precocious child version), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (the strong, earth mother woman with normal child version...
...away from her beloved sister Nettie--there are three others that seem photographed by Rainbow Brite for Hovel Beautiful. The book's famous lesbian encounter between Celie and the charismatic blues singer Shug is played as if it were a sweet game a mother would teach her adoring child. Male violence is less sexual than paternal. Passion is wanting throughout, and a radiance that emanates from something other than a klieg light. It's all very pretty, but it's cinematography, not cinema...
Melissa Glen '88 was eating dinner in Winthrop House on Saturday night when the male cast of Grease came over and picked up her chair. They carried her to the front of the dining hall, where someone dressed in a Victorian coat sang, "Melissa Ma Belle". The lead singer gave her a carnation, while the other guys kissed...
Most major companies have stampeded to produce a line of so-called male action figures like Mattel's Masters of the Universe. Since 1982, when the line was introduced, California-based Mattel has sold some 125 million creatures, or an average of eleven of them to each boy in the U.S. between the ages of five and ten. Children collect the 6-in. plastic figures ($5 to $7), whose personalities reflect a blend of medieval and outer-space themes, in order to enact imaginary battles between good and evil. The virtuous leader is He-Man, who fights a never-ending...
...that Aquino hopes to raise. Marcos' ruling New Society Movement (K.B.L.) is the dominant force in most of the country's 73 provinces, and he can dispense favors and public works virtually at will. Aquino must also overcome the handicap of being female in a heavily Spanish-influenced, male-dominated society. Marcos has already pressed his advantage on that point, claiming that ( the Philippines is not ready for a woman President. Furthermore, skeptics inside and outside the Philippines doubt that Aquino, should she win, would have the toughness and the savvy to cope with the country's problems. There...