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Anthropologist Robin Fox's conclusions about the struggle for control of the society [Sept. 22] are basically sound, but he is wrong when he says that the aspiration among modern women to jobs in the marketplace is a foolish deviation from the norm. Evolution itself is a deviation from the norm. If men and women are not allowed to evolve and change, our society will stagnate...
...what I yam," shrugs Popeye the Sailor, which may be easy for him to say. But just try being Popeye for a while, as Robin Williams did while making a Robert Altman film about the old gob, set for release in December. Not only did the actor have to master a vocabulary of malapropisms far more complex than the nano-nanos of Mork from Ork. He had to cavort under the fierce Malta sun, wearing thick rubber arm pads to simulate the cartoon sailor's anvil forearms. He had to squint perpetually out of his left eye, speak...
...women's tennis team traveled to Penn State University this weekend for a round-robin tournament and picked up wins over tough University of Virginia, 5-4, and not-so-tough Ohio State University, 5-1, while losing only once to the host Nittany Lions...
Corporate product-plugging accounts for the presence of such mediocre bands as the Urban Verbs, Pearl Harbor and Robin Lane, all of which sound slick, derivative and, well, utterly tame in comparison to their earlier counterparts...
...Robin Moore, author of The French Connection, has agents peddling a tax shelter that involves buying an interest in five future novels by Moore and others. An investor puts up $20,000 cash and a $100,000 note due in ten years and gets to depreciate $115,000 on his taxes in the first three years. If the novels and anticipated movies are bookstore and box-office smashes, the investor will hit the jackpot. If they flop, though, the investor will still have to pay off the $100,000 note after ten years...