Word: olin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Streep performs as spokeswoman for Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits. The names of celebs who huddled around a garbage-filled storm drain at a rally for Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica, Calif., group, read like a short list for the 25 most intriguing people: thirtysomething people (Ken Olin, Patricia Wettig), sitcom people (Justine Bateman, John Ritter), people named Moon and Dweezil Zappa. A sludge protest drew Dynasty's Linda Evans to Olympic, Wash. More recently, Dennis Weaver, Michael Landon and Robert Downey Jr. voiced their protest against offshore oil drilling at a rally in downtown L.A. And last...
...exchange represents a glasnost-era breakthrough that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. "Without perestroika, we would not be here in America," says Imbi Hepner, a bouncy 21- year-old education major now at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. The program was initiated by three American college presidents -- Olin Robison of Middlebury, Alice Ilchman of Sarah Lawrence and David Fraser of Swarthmore -- who presented the idea to the Soviet Ministry of Higher Education last year...
Three foundations, the Mellon, Olin and Bradley, donated the funds, which were given in the form of matching gifts and multi-year grants...
...rest of the recent funding comes from two other philanthropic organizations. The Olin Foundation will donate $100,000 a year over the next three years to pay for fellowships, as well as $50,000 to pay for special seminars, according to a press release...
...every woman he meets: "Take off your clothes." A handsome Prague surgeon, he is also an epic womanizer -- a kind of Columbus or Cousteau, eager to chart the provocative depths of womankind. "Is every woman a new land, whose secrets you want to discover?" The questioner is Sabina (Lena Olin), a painter and Tomas' frequent mistress whose principal props are her mirror and her quaint black bowler. The mirror is Sabina's canvas, her lover, her critic; the hat is an emblem of her willingness to walk out on a lover or a country when it gets too messy...