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...sequence, another rainbow arches above her, beckoning her onward. In between, she experiments with lesbian and heterosexual lovers (Amanda Donohoe and Paul McGann, respectively), endures a bleak passage as a teacher in a working-class school and witnesses the end of an Edenesque England. All these experiences test her, stir her questing spirit and lead her finally to feminist independence, which was never more attractively stated than it was in these early, innocent days...
...programming may not be as irreverent (some might say tasteless) as its promotional ads, but the Consumer News & Business Channel, a cable service that will be launched next week by NBC, is causing plenty of stir. The channel will compete directly with cable's chief business-news outlet, the Financial News Network (FNN). But some in the cable industry believe that CNBC has a much bigger rival in its sights: Ted Turner's cable news giant...
After HRAAA candidates won three overseer seats in two years, they came up empty last year. The divestment movement was slowly dying on campus, and HRAAA couldn't stir up the kind of controversy that won seats for Overseers Peter H. Wood '64 and Gay W. Siedman...
Hennessey also says there is no butter or margarine on any of the vegetables, except for the stir-fry. "Because students were saying, 'We can put the butter or margarine on ourselves,' we let them do it," Hennessey says...
...deals. One farmer states the proposition from Willey's point of view: "You get the price up, and if farm prices aren't so good, you're going to get other districts saying, 'Look what those fellows are doing over there.' " A price upwards of $125 might begin to stir their interest. Then they grimace and stare at their thumbs as if to say they honestly wished they could do better...