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When Walter and Anna (Tom Hanks and Shelley Long) find their dream house (actually, it is a mansion, long on charm and short on viable plumbing), they neglect to check the neighborhood. And nobody tells them their property is located deep in Harold Lloyd country, where anything that can go wrong will and all the repairmen are incompetent or venal...
...rotted stair riser and a front-door lock that sticks. Working on them, Walter somehow causes both the stairway and the entranceway to collapse. That says nothing about what happens to the chimney when he carelessly tosses a log into the second-floor fireplace. What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description and bears comparison to one of Lloyd's immortally orchestrated and madly logical...
...about its committment to the discipline, it should consider giving the committee an additional tenured position and give special consideration to women's studies specialists when tenuring within other departments. Above all, the creation of a women's studies concentration should not be an excuse for other departments to neglect integrating women's issues into their curricula...
...those horror stories of waste by the Pentagon and fraud by defense contractors--the $400 hammers, the $600 toilet covers--have taken a toll on the national consensus for reversing what Reagan has called the "decade of neglect" that sapped U.S. military strength in the 1970s. For the first time since Reagan launched his $1.5 trillion defense buildup five years ago, polls show sharply declining support for increased military spending. In Congress, deficit cutters in both parties are arguing that the Pentagon cannot be exempted from the budget ax. And two days after the President spoke last week, a commission...
Distinguishing women's history as a separate discipline may be a necessary strategy for beginning the long task of rewriting history, of inscribing in it the voices and actions of women. However, that strategy is as dangerous as it is necessary; it may invite traditional historians to continue to neglect the role of women, to "leave women's history to the women...