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Word: supers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice" of unpaid domestic work and twenty-four-hour-a-day child care; a career, in some profession that not only discriminates against her sex, but also feels alien to her because its ethos and value system have been shaped without women's influence; the role of super-woman whereby she combines both choices and feels she does justice to neither. The first choice may look like less of a struggle, but she rightly suspects that it is not. The other two choices at least ensure that her struggles will be visible in the world, and that she will have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riesman and Women | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...relying too heavily on the character's caricaturish whackiness to carry her through the part. Richard Brooks' direction and adaptation of Judith Rossner's best-selling novel is sufficiently slick to draw crowds to the box office, but the film can be filed as another victim to the typical super-ficiality of American movies. Sharp witticisms and flashy techniques keep the movie's pace upbeat, while Brooks neglects Dunn's broader significance as prototypical single woman vainly coping with today's anything-goes morality. The movie consistently entertains, but does little else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With A Trowel | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...primary responsibility for disarmament rests on the super powers, and it is for them to take the first step," Igbal Akund, permanent representative to the United Nations from Pakistan, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disarmament Speech | 3/16/1978 | See Source »

...assumption by the super powers that strategic arms balance is an end in itself is not acceptable," Akund said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disarmament Speech | 3/16/1978 | See Source »

Akund added he does not foresee any resolution of the differences between the "super powers" and the "non-super powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disarmament Speech | 3/16/1978 | See Source »

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