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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUESTION for women of career vs. family has been hashed and rehashed enough to deforest the entire Pacific Northwest. Now Hollywood has thrown in its two cents with Baby Boom, ostensibly a social satire that turns serious every once in a while in order to shed some light on this question. Unfortunately, Baby Boom is neither illuminating nor terribly funny...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Baby Bummer | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

...Theo and searches for clues to explain his fate, a complex portrait slowly emerges, not only of a troubled young man but of an entire community losing its ideals and energies. Theo's marriage to Snow Mullins, a red-neck girl with a ninth-grade education, was a gauntlet thrown down at the Quicks' precarious sense of stature, indeed at Mountain City's communal illusion of social propriety. Theo's younger brother Rafe remembers, "I mean, it was embarrassing at the wedding, seeing how Mom's friends tried to keep their faces from showing how horrified they were when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polite Forms of Aggression A SOUTHERN FAMILY | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

Yohe's excellent 15-for-32, three TD performance was accompanied by the junior quarterback's usual array of scrambles, roll-outs and throws on the run. None of Yohe's five touchdown passes this year have been thrown out of the pocket...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Second Win Blew Gridders' Way | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

Despite the Crown Point, Ind. native's historic outing, the Harvard coaching staff saw a few things that could be improved. Several times Yohe was tackled for a sack on plays in which it looked like he could have thrown the ball away in time. Once, Yohe was sacked back at his own 2-yd. line, forcing Harvard to punt from its own endzone...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Second Win Blew Gridders' Way | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...have to have a candidate who can win," Goresaid. "The American people know that some of thoseideas that were thrown around this afternoon arejust wildly unrealistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democrats Call For Arms Control | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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