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...given a better or more poignant performance. Last month she played a poor woman who befriends a black teen-ager in another CBS special, the unfortunately titled White Mama; next week she will be seen in a Disney sci-fi thriller, The Watcher in the Woods. And if The Thorn Birds is ever made, she will probably play Mary Carson, a rich Australian dowager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Just a Dame from New England | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...pulling the Rhodesian thorn from Britain's side once described himself as "a product of privilege." Indeed, Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 60, sixth Baron Carrington,* bears all the hallmarks of his patrician heritage: urbanity, erudition and an icy self-assurance sometimes bordering on arrogance. He has, says a friend, "that aristocratic, flippant manner that makes him free of inhibitions or a sense of inadequacy." Though he has never held elective office, the trim, impeccably tailored Carrington is regarded as a consummate politician. He has more governmental experience than anyone else in the Thatcher Cabinet-"more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Britain's Pragmatic Patrician | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Being a Christian by Hans Küng (Doubleday, 1976). A work of fairly serious theology that became a big seller, this book by Küng, liberal Swiss priest and thorn in the side of the Vatican, offers a revisionist review of such Christian dogmas as the Resurrection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Printed to Last | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...that article I was quoted as saying that the administration saw the department as a thorn in its side. This statement was made as a pretext to my observation that at the crux of the department's problems lies the administration's failure to fulfill certain commitments (tenured professorships, departmental chairs) that were made when the department began some ten years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The State of Afro-American Studies | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

Students within the department said that they are also bothered by the University's attitude toward Afro-American Studies. Louis E. Bird '80, an Afro-American Studies concentrator, said last week, "The reason that Afro is on the brink is that the University sees Afro as a thorn in its side...

Author: By Lisa E. Davis, | Title: Plan to Reduce Afro-Am to a Committee Creates Controversy Among the Faculty | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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