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...bottom of the fourth, when Rowning (who had already thrown 51 pitches) took to the mound and promptly walked the leadoff batter, it appeared that she, too, might be in for a spell of faltering...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batswomen Shred Wheaton in Opener, 2-0 | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

...impoverished Pakistani writer (Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rue Britannia My Beautiful Laundrette | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...Indianapolis case may spell the end of attempts to attack porn as sex discrimination, a tactic that in recent years had the unusual effect of allying some left-leaning feminists and conservative moralists. The idea was developed by Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon, a visiting scholar at Stanford, and Andrea Dworkin, a New York feminist writer (Pornography: Men Possessing Women). They contend that by enforcing a subordinate image of women, porn promotes violence against them and hinders their chances of achieving equal opportunity. In the past the court has permitted restrictions on free speech when a "compelling" government objective is involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Give-and-Take on Pornography | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Simultaneously, but independently, they invent the notion of stealing the turtles and setting them free in the ocean. It requires only the intercession of a third party, the creatures' keeper, to bring them together. Thereafter, Turtle Diary casts its spell mainly through its refusals. The heist proceeds without hitch or Hitchcockian suspense. There is not a single sentimental or anthropomorphic word, nor does anyone utter a sound about endangered species or ecological morality. William and Neaera do not fall in love as a result of their shared adventure. Each remobilizes sexually in surprising ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shell Games Turtle Diary | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...arts college, broke or flush, in the day of M.B.A.s and corporate specialization? "Big corporations won't come to small liberal arts colleges to recruit," Ponder laments. "They want engineering students." Nonetheless, he has a plan: "We will call attention to our own, a person who can read, write, spell, think. You can teach him the technique of running your shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nashville: Fisk Makes a Comeback | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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