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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stuart Singer, president of the Harvard Law Review, may be right when he says that everyone on the review recognizes the underrepresentation of minorities and women on the publication, but not everyone agrees on what action should be taken to remedy...

Author: By Michael G. Harpe, | Title: An Affirmative Action | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

...dark, Dantean cavern that waives the $3 to $4 admittance charge for local cabbies (they help spread the word) and books some of the most popular country-rock acts in the area, McNasty's according to Owner Rich Thomas, 38 is "a workingman's nightclub." Or as Singer-Model Elizabeth Harrison, 21 puts it: "Disco turns me off because the people are really plastic. When you're here, you feel like everybody knows you. It's really dynamite. There's no competition. You want to dance, you do it. You want to get drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: C & W Nightclubs: Riding High | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Unfortunately, another movie captivated audiences that year: The Jazz Singer. The first talkie totally obscured the late, great silents like Napoleon. The Gance film was also dauntingly long. Though De Gaulle saw a 2½-hour version, the movie Gance originally intended to release was something like six hours in length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Napoleon: An Epic out of Exile | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...drama and high sentiments of The Jazz Singer may be only a glossy reflection of Diamond's life and sometimes troubled times. But the movie does pull off at least one tricky proposition: it finally and snugly tucks Neil Diamond inside a tradition. He is revealed as a rouser, a showman, a kind of bandmaster of the American mainstream. Like Jolson's, even Diamond's slickest movements seem sincere. The stuff may be corny, but it's never prefab. Neil leans into the Kol Nidre as if it were a sacred version of his sound-track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bandmaster of the Mainstream | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

Assistant Attorneys General Adrienne Collier and Rhonda Singer say they expect to investigate eight to ten other ghostly firms in the next 30 days. Meanwhile, hundreds of C.R.S. clients will have to write their own term papers-or buy them elsewhere. In fact, several anxious students called C.R.S. to ask about their papers while the raid was in progress last week. Their requests met no sympathy from the investigator who was answering the C.R.S. phone. Later some even telephoned the attorney general's office to ask for their papers. They had already paid for the work, they said. Besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Straight A's at $3.50 a Page | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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