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...chauvinist pig in Lina Wertmuller's The End of the World in Our Usual Bed, etc. Off camera, too, she has become a feminist. To prove it, Bergen, 31, joined Gloria Steinem and other members of the National Women's Political Caucus last week at a fund raiser for the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA, she told the audience, assures women in the U.S. "only the fundamental human rights." As for Italian women: "They've [just] gone from basic black to blue jeans and marching, from the Middle Ages to future shock. Italian men are in shock...
...civility. Carter sometimes seems to go in the opposite direction to show the world he will not live up to tradition. He would not wear his tuxedo for the state dinner in France's Versailles Palace, but he put the tux on to appear at the political fund raiser in Atlanta set up by his deposed pal Bert Lance. Theodore H. White, an authority on Presidents and how they got there, has long contended that class is a critical part of politics. "Class is a matter of style in leadership," he says. "It is the magic that translates...
Hundley has defended former Attorney General John Mitchell; Democratic Fund Raiser W. Dale Hess, one of the figures in the corruption trial starring Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel; Gulf Oil Lobbyist Claude C. Wild Jr.; a number of FBI agents implicated in illegal searches; and even, briefly, Richard Nixon...
Take Bea Leaguered, for example, a mild-mannered office worker and the heroine of a skit put on by "The 9to5 Players" at a fund-raiser in Boston last week. She is oppressed again and again by wicked bosses. One day her friends take pity on her and present her with a membership in 9to5. Phoenix-like, she rises up out of the typing pool to defeat one discriminatory employer after another--Macho Mutual Insurance Company, Arrogant Women-Proof Publishers, First Bigoted Bank of Boston, Neanderthal University. Will the work of the noble Ms. Leaguered ever be done...
...Carpenter, former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, at a fund raiser for the Equal Rights Amendment, still three votes shy of passage: "If I die, don't send flowers. Just send three more states...