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...experiment itself was not so successful. What these women were trying to do was to break down the separation that exists not just between man and woman but between human and human, to create a new family. But the conflicts between the three stubbornly become sharper and sharper, and the moments of unity shorter and shorter. By the end of the book, the letters convey no bitterness but only a sense of disappointment and exhaustion. Not all was in vain, though. On the contrary, there seems to be something very precious even in that shared disappointment. As one Maria says...
...Terriers, who were only slightly faster than Harvard Saturday, exploited Harvard's slowness to clear their own zone and execute simple clearing plays. A bit of pressure resulted in errant passes from the defense and B.U. goals. Harvard's defense will have to look sharper for the NCAAs...
...lyrics require precise enunciation and too often jokes are missed simply because the words are smudged not only in their songs but throughout. Janice Cuddy (God) and Debbie Smigel (Jenny Novocane) are both excellent; Cuddy's "Power to Persuade" is belted out with high skill. Nancy Raffman brings a sharper edge to her role than most others in the cast and her kind of mania is just what an actor of actress needs to bring so this show...
...part of the problem. As the troubles of the unemployment insurance system show, widespread joblessness costs the nation ever larger amounts of tax money and leads to bigger federal deficits. All of which raises the question: Could a far more expansionary national economic policy be any worse? Indeed, even sharper tax cuts than the Administration wants would reduce the federal deficit-by putting people back to work...
...last month. Compared with the overall national unemployment rate, these figures seem low. But while total unemployment between December 1973 and December 1974 rose by 48%, from 4.4 million to 6.5 million, unemployment among managers and administrators jumped by 85%, from 125,000 to 231,000. That was a sharper increase than for any other white-collar occupational group...