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...some, protesting runs in the family. Susan Tilson attended yesterday's protest against the Secretary of State with her son Whitney '89. While mom said that she has been to numerous protests, her son said that yesterday's was his first...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Reporter's Notebook: A Little Trivia Anyone? | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...formerly unacknowledged maternal instinct raised to full inner scream by exotic and terrifying circumstances, takes a frightened child into desperately protective custody. The payoff is in the large photo: the climactic confrontation between this woman and her chief tormentor, leader of the alien monsters and -- ironically, grotesquely -- a single mom herself. Since she is a well-armored insect about 14 ft. tall, determined to propagate her kind, and since that activity requires human lives to be accomplished -- as many as she and her innumerable brood can lay merciless pincers on -- she is not a creature to be taken lightly either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...name stayed; the enthusiasms wandered. One year she made her society debut: "I thought of myself as an ugly duckling, tall and shy, and for that coming-out party I had turned into a tiny swan." The next year she was in Israel telling her mom, "I want to stay and help." Recalls Elizabeth: "This was at a stage when she wouldn't make her bed. But she had the Sigourney Serious Look -- and when you see it, you act." Now the Wasp princess trades in her deb gown for khaki and operates the potato-peeling machine at the Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Years of Living Splendidly | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...spending billions to boost foreign sales and prop up incomes for those who survive. Yet the adjustment process is a bitter one that promises hardship not only for farm families but for the thousands of already troubled farm-oriented businesses, including machinery builders, petrochemical companies, seed producers and the mom-and-pop shops that keep small rural towns alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amber Waves of Strain | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...knew when it would explode. He owned a candy store, then a dry cleaner's, then a pool hall. In the pool hall, I'd put tips on the cues, clean the tables and hang out. It was my day-care center. At home I was spoiled by my mom and her millions of girlfriends. In Italian families, boys can do anything. Girls are locked in the closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tinseltown's Tiny Terror | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

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