Word: rhoda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Morrissey Edmiston team. Stuart's new Ultrasuede "Fonda" dress is long gone from the racks of L.A.'s Fred Segal. But the material doesn't say retro to all. "The feel is casual elegance," explains handbag designer Kate Spade. "I don't look at my bags and think Rhoda...
BACK HOME IN NEW YORK CITY, HER friends and relatives know Lori Berenson as a compassionate idealist, an innocent waylaid by her concern for the poor and oppressed of Latin America. Rhoda Berenson, a community-college physics teacher, says the very notion of her 26-year-old daughter's being involved in violence "is absolutely ridiculous." A friend since junior high school, Daniel Radosh, finds it "hard to reconcile what they are saying about her with the gentle person I know...
...Rhoda Berenson maintains that her daughter has never had a chance to defend herself against these charges. "The whole system is a secret one, where you don't know what the evidence is or what the charges are based on," she told TIME last week. Berenson may have one chance for a reprieve. She was convicted of treason, the most serious terrorism offense, and her Peruvian lawyers are appealing on the technical ground that she cannot be tried for this crime. "It is against international law to prosecute a foreigner for treason," says Grimaldo Achahui. "You can't take away...
...than rating products, CR's purpose? Richard Greenhaus, 65, was a testing engineer for the magazine for 18 years; he left in 1990 because, he says, CR had "changed from an interested consumers' group to a bureaucracy behaving like a branch of government." Greenhaus charges that Consumers Union president Rhoda Karpatkin "is a politically active Democrat" and that CR has changed from conducting disinterested research to promoting a consciously liberal agenda. Says Karpatkin, citing a 1986 letter from Ronald Reagan praising Consumers Union's "competence and impartiality": "I do not engage in partisan politics...
...scene tells the lesson of "your new vagina" thanks to Ronald/Rhoda. A recent sex-change male transsexual, Rhoda was anxious to try out her new vagina. But Wishman doesn't allow us just to hear it from Wollman, we see her in her first encounter. The poor woman suffers from major blood loss and has to return to the hospital to undergo another series of operations to repare the damage she underwent during...