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...middle of the race, his boat surged. Parker's face was as placid as a lake on a calm spring...
...government's placid tolerance of such heresies is largely a matter of timing. With 3,000 international delegates attending the annual meeting of the 47-member Asian Development Bank last week in the Great Hall of the People, within earshot of Tiananmen Square, officials wanted to avoid any unpleasantness. And the protest came just days before the scheduled May 15-18 summit meeting between Chinese officials and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
Born in Worcester, Mass., Hoffman studied psychology at Brandeis University in the placid 1950s, then went on to graduate work in the headier atmosphere of the University of California, Berkeley. By the mid-1960s, after a stint as a traveling pharmaceutical salesman, he was living among the hippies in New York City and devoting himself to opposing the Viet Nam War. "Personally I always held my flower in a clenched fist," he once wrote...
Should women have to choose between a career and a family? Most business people would probably say the question was settled years ago with a resounding no. And yet beneath the placid corporate consensus on that issue lurks considerable anxiety about the double pressures on working mothers. For many ambitious women, a nagging fear persists that having children may cost them a chance at the top jobs. Despite the new outpouring of corporate benefits for working parents, professional women justifiably suspect that some bosses now categorize their female employees into two classes: mothers and achievers. "The idea is really offensive...
What's got into moviemakers lately, that they are so enthusiastically trashing their most genteel patrons? Bob Balaban's recent comedy Parents, a kind of robin's-egg Blue Velvet, limned a '50s family, as placid and telegenic as the Andersons on Father Knows Best, that devours human flesh. Now Middle America gets a return visit from Joe Dante, guerrilla terrorist in Spielbergian suburbia. His Gremlins was a comic nightmare in which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves...