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...biggest event in Ithaca, N.Y. is the yearly visit of the Crimson, so the folks who stood in line overnight three months ago to purchase their Big Red season tickets want to get a healthy return on their time investment...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Lying in Wait at Lynah-Cornell Crazies Ready for Crimson | 12/8/1984 | See Source »

...course, changing society's attitudes overnight is impossible, and resorting to extra-legal means won't eliminate abortion entirely. But considering the difficulty of instituting and enforcing a legal prohibition of abortion, an extra-legal pro-life movement would probably be much more effective in preventing abortions without abridging anyone's freedom of choice. And to a true pro-lifer, preventing more abortions is all that matters...

Author: By Michael N. Gooen, | Title: Real Life | 12/5/1984 | See Source »

...adolescent whim-such are the compelling mysteries of personality. Bonnaire stars as the teen-age Suzanne in this doggedly unsentimental French film from Writer-Director Maurice Pialat. Suzanne's family has stayed together by corseting all hostilities. Then she discovers the power of her own erotic impulse. Overnight, Daddy's little girl is a slut in Mama's eyes, and the family falls into convulsions of jealousy and hatred. Like the off-Hollywood films of John Cassavetes, A Nos Amours is less drama than psychodrama; it wears its artlessness as a badge of intrepid truth-telling. Bonnaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 3, 1984 | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...babies held up for campaign busses. She was probably the least-known candidate chosen for the No. 2 spot on a major party ticket since Barry Goldwater picked another relatively obscure New York House member, William Miller, as his running mate in 1964. Unlike Miller, however, Ferraro became an overnight sensation who frequently eclipsed the presidential nominee, both in excitement and controversy. Indeed, such were the emotional ups and downs of her race that near its end Ferraro admitted that she probably would not have stepped into her niche in history if she had known the toll it would take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: A Credible Candidacy And Then Some | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...about 6 p.m. that same day, additional reports of the nova began pouring in from Europe, and overnight over 30 telegrams arrived in his office. The barrage continued until Monday when Marsden decided to write a longer more comprehensive circular of the complete list of citings...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Something Strange? Who Ya Gonna Call? | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

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