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...strongest and best-know essay of the lot, "Click! The Housewife's Moment of Truth," provides a primer for the housewife who has recently become aware she is oppressed. ("Decide what housework needs to be done. Then cut the list in half... Do not feel guilty.") It also lists various epiphanic moments when women realized their traditional role was absurd (at a consciousness-raising group exercise, the women discover they envision themselves as domesticated cats; a husband praises himself for helping his working wife with housework on his vacation...
...Brazilian musical? The words evoke memories of Carmen Miranda, teeth gleaming, hips undulating, r's trilling, balancing a headdress of tropical fruit heavy enough to give the strongest Rio dock worker a hernia. That was '40s Hollywood, whose notion of Brazil was half picture postcard, half Daliesque daydream. Since then, a group of engaged intellectuals, collectively called cinema novo, have created a native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate...
...Court of Appeals ruling, independent groups may pay for communication advertisements for candidates, as long as the groups do not consult the candidates concerned. According to the National Journal of September 13, NCPAC chairman John T. Dolan wanted to support Reagan most aggressively in states where Carter seemed strongest, and therefore launched an advertising campaign critical of Carter's failures to realize promises made in 1976. Some of the commercials made harsher attacks than others, and CBS reportedly cited one particular advertisement to be in poor taste. The broadcasting company refused to air the ad, and rejected all other commercials...
...committee member, who asked not to be identified, added that the Fogg has been unable to approach many of the museum's strongest supporters who are also targets of the Harvard Campaign, an effort by the University to raise $250 million over the next five years...
...section of concluding recommendations, the report suggests the following: "In departments where there is statistically significant underutilization of women, special effort must be made to attract the largest possible number of the strongest women candidates. The Dean should continue to meet with the chairmen of these departments, especially when a tenured position is available, in order to discuss the most effective ways of including women candidates before search committees begin their work...