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Vieira is just one of a handful of successful journalists who have recently flouted their images as serious professional women by flaunting their glamour and sex appeal. NBC's Maria Shriver, decked out in a strapless evening gown, dallied mischievously with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Vanity Fair shortly before their April 1986 wedding; this month the 32-year-old TV reporter's make-up routine is featured in a stunning photo sequence in Harper's Bazaar. And CBS Superstar Diane Sawyer, 42, radiated Hollywood-star presence in a set of sultry photographs in last September's Vanity Fair...
...dispute that the glitzy publicity is a slick promotional tool. "It's an opportunity to market themselves," says NBC Producer Linda Ellman, who worked with Maria Shriver in Los Angeles. "The more publicity they get, the more people are likely to watch them." The strongest detractors contend that any benefits may be illusory. By playing at being sex objects, they warn, even the most successful women run the risk of eroding their hard-earned credibility...
...crooked, skipping swing of his legs, and twice, on nothing but determination, manages to pass the runner ahead of him. But in the end he is last, the ninth of nine. Only eight medals and awards have been prepared. The officials do not know what to do. Eunice Kennedy Shriver does, however. She hotfoots it down from the stands, gives Duarte a second hug and decrees that he get a medal for extraordinary heroism. She is entitled to such expansiveness. She and her husband started a summer camp for the mentally handicapped in the backyard of their Maryland home...
...Daniel. Cash, though, still gets faulted by feminists. Dismissing women's tennis as "junk," he told Woman's Own magazine, "If I played a practice game with ((Boris Becker)) when the women's final was on, we'd have more people watching us." Volleyed back Tennis Ace Pam Shriver: "He seems like someone who is a little narrow-minded and maybe a little dumb." Advantage Shriver, mate...
...murkiness of insider-trading regulations is an example of why some leading moralists worry about an excessively legalistic approach to defining ) ethical behavior. "Take corruption on Wall Street," says Donald Shriver, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City. "There are points where we think dishonesty is wrong even if it is legal...