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Atlanta's Rhoda Berliner (see page 50) is an example of how the availability of guns can make a difference. She had been undergoing therapy for recurring depression. Despite a comfortable income, the 63-year-old divorcee was so afraid of poverty that she twice tried to kill herself with pills. Each time, her family discovered her soon enough to save her. But on Saturday morning, May 6, she found a swift and certain alternative. She went to a shopping center and bought a handgun. Since Berliner knew nothing about weapons, the salesclerk loaded the pistol for her. She took...
Founded in 1885, Goucher went coed in an effort to reverse declining enrollment, currently around 850. "The presence of a full-time male student has made a statement," says President Rhoda Dorsey, pointing to a 51% rise in applications. Some 100 came from men, so Monheit will not be a lone pioneer for long. That suits him fine. He would rather follow quietly in the footsteps of his mother, Goucher...
...talented actress with whom Allen is not sleeping, but who nevertheless appears in this film, is Julie Kavner, best known to the public as Brenda Morganstern of TV's Rhoda...
Gilchrist's strength lies in her portrayal of girls and women like JeanAnne Lori, real hellions who drive everybody around them to distraction. One of the most famous is the precocious nine-year old heroine of Victory over Japan--for which Gilchrist won the 1984 American Book Award--Rhoda Manning. She is nasty--a smart, nasty child with a wild imagination. But the women in Drunk with Love are too flashy, too angry and too loud. They don't seem to suffer from living; they are born misfits, albeit amusing and erudite...
...Gilchrist's stories, there aren't any good ones. The relationships falter and die because of the men who are narrow-minded like Rhoda's father, or selfish like the married man in "Anna, Part I" or downright violent like the Lebanese immigrant in "The Emancipator" and the Black husband in "Memphis...