Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beady-eyed ex-husband threatens to sue Molly for custody of the kiddies if she doesn't quit her position and take up something milder. He claims that her job is endangering their daughters by bringing the brutes into too much contact with them. Just so we know that choosing between job and kids is going to be hard for her, Molly says, "My kids are more valuable to me than anything." When Molly refuses to adhere to his demand that she quit, the movie gets a silly courtroom scene with big, loveable, football players blundering to the defense...
...plays a woman entering a field that is male dominated, not unlike her character in Private Benjamin, but her Molly does very little besides playing off of all the various flat and stereotypical characters in the movie. Her role requires little acting, just reacting; to her husband demanding she quit her job, to her team when they haze her, to her kid when she dyes her hair. Even her final, climactic decision to fight her husband only comes after the football team pressures her. By being, in fact, such a passive character, who hardly acts for herself, Hawn does...
...notorious Murder, Inc. Upon graduating from | Brooklyn Law School in 1962 and going to work as an assistant district attorney, he began to moonlight as legal counsel for some of his acquaintances from the neighborhood. When the D.A. ordered him to abandon his private practice in 1969, Light instead quit to work full time for the Cosa Nostra. He said he received 80% to 90% of his fees in cash--"the best way to get paid...
About half of the Harvard Political Review's top editors last night decided to quit the quarterly journal rather than accept a new relationship with the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee (SAC) that they said would compromise their editorial freedom...
...work together on it. I will claim only to have been involved." Only once has Shultz publicly questioned a Reagan decision--involving not foreign policy but lie-detector tests for Administration officials--and then it was the President who bowed to Shultz's insistence that he would quit if he ever had to take...