Search Details

Word: sylvia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...function and neutralizes its effect on career advancement. The California law "in effect equalizes working men and women," argues Christine Littleton, counsel for the Los Angeles-based Coalition for Reproductive Equality in the Workplace. "It is okay to recognize that women have some difference in their requirements," says Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who has criticized feminists in the past for denigrating the importance of women's child-rearing and family responsibilities. "This decision means that there is recognition at the highest legal levels that in order to get equal results for women in the workplace, you have to create family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garland's Bouquet | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...characters like Casanova anymore," he observes. "His kind of life would never happen now, but he is a great deal of fun." No kidding. The script for Casanova, a three-hour abc movie to appear later this season, calls for Chamberlain to seduce such beauties as Faye Dunaway and Sylvia Kristel (Emmannuelle). Nice work if you can cut it, but Casanova may have had an easier time of it. Chamberlain, 51, has to bed all his conquests twice. "We have the classic American and European dichotomy," he reports. "For the American version the women are covered up, and then when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1986 | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...Sylvia. I didn't say Simon -- I'm out, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: in New York: Simon Says Condo | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...just didn't expect this reaction. Weexpected the opposite," said Sylvia M. Matthews'87, a member of the steering committee. Epps toosaid the strong interest surprised...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: 350th Gala Criticized For Unjust Selectivity | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...gorgeous Sunday in June, Simon Geller slouches in an easy chair in his darkened apartment, with the windows closed and a chuck steak in the oven, listening to himself on the radio. At the moment, he is broadcasting the ballet Sylvia, by Leo Delibes, on the station he periodically identifies as "WVCA, 104.9 megahertz, in Gloucester, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Giving Music | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Previous | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | Next