Word: rae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great deal of discontent at Wellesley stems from the total lack of men--a problem compounded by the fact that Wellesley is very secluded and separate from all other colleges. "I felt like I had entered a nunnery or a nerd-shell when I came here," says sophomore Heather Rae. "There are a lot of girls here who just don't want to deal with men--who just want to shut the door on the male aspect of their lives...
...like the initially attractive isolation of the campus, the intensity of the academics can make people very unhappy. "Learning is reduced to a petty competitiveness here--everyone feels like they have to put in more hours at the library, or score better on tests than the girls next door," Rae says...
...company fought back so hard that the NLRB cited it 22 times for violations of federal labor rules, and in 1977 a New York court branded it "the most notorious recidivist in the field of labor law." Stevens' image was also bruised by the 1979 film Norma Rae, which was about the drive to organize Stevens workers in Roanoke Rapids...
...come a long way, flying nun. From that silly television series about a novice who had an airborne habit, Sally Field landed in a serious role as Norma Rae, the Southern mill hand with a heart of steel and an eye for her union organizer. Fresh from that Academy Award performance, Field is at work in the South again in an even more down-to-earth assignment. In Back Roads, now shooting in Mobile, Ala., she plays a hooker who falls in love with a down-and-out boxer and decides to travel cross-country with him. If her roles...
...Trigère gown, Streep, who is Mrs. Don Gummer in real life, blushingly swept a hand across her stomach and sighed: "It doesn't fit like it should since the baby." Sally Field was flushed with more than her victory as Best Actress for Norma Rae. Field, who had scarcely eaten for three days because of pre-Oscar nerves, sagged into bed next day with flu and a 102° fever. So many bouquets multiplied in her sickroom that she reported weakly: "It looks like a florist shop. Or a morgue...