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...were still at a very traditional time," says one member of the Class of '42. "The war had a very profound effect on the number of jobs for women...
...MINUTES FROM THE OVAL OFFICE LAST FRIDAY the echo was familiar. It was George Bush at his Inaugural. There were kind words, gentle words and tough words -- all appropriate, all profound in their simplicity. It was good, plain talk from the heart. Nothing flashy; none of the "Message: I care" nonsense the President pushed on New Hampshire voters last winter when it was his survival and his future that were at stake...
...idea of parental notification has a logic to it in communities where high school girls cannot receive aspirin from a school nurse without a parent's approval. But again, abortion rights advocates argue that a girl who does not want to tell her parents she is pregnant may have profound reasons for her silence, and no new law is likely to overcome that immediate fear...
There's little that's profound here, but A Taxing Woman will, from the start, pick you up and zoom you through...
...earlier Ju Dou, has yet to be shown on the mainland. The authorities see that both pictures, about rebellious young people crushed by mean old men, abound in dangerous political implications. And so, to their eternal discredit, the old men who run China have deprived their nation of the profound and pertinent pleasures that China's best filmmaker has provided for the rest of the world. Zhang is one in a billion. When will the billion get to see his work...