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Consider Alice Roy, an assistant professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. For five rough years she scrambled as a part-timer on various faculties. One semester she taught five courses at three different colleges, driving as much as 80 miles a day to keep all her teaching commitments. "I could get on the freeway and find I was going to the wrong place on the wrong day," she says. Her average aggregate salary for such frantic devotion: as little as $15,000, less than a fourth of the pay for a tenured full professor in the California...
...over a small, lower-middle-class ranch house in rural America, Jessie (Sissy Spacek) gives her full attention to the monotonous, ennerving tasks of refilling the candy dishes in the living room, taking the clean towels out of the clothes dryer, cancelling the daily paper, setting the electric light timer...
...curved acrylic bed. A self-contained fan system swirls cool air around your tingling epidermis as your head and feet rest on soft pillows. Goggles make it safe for your eyes. You can listen to music, sleep or just let your thoughts wander, secure in the knowledge that double timer systems will turn the lights off automatically...
Prince skillfully manages to capture and balance the farcical humor that opens the movie with the romantic tragedy that ends it. That's not bad for a first timer...
...obnoxious big-sister and homespun-psychiatrist that we've come to expect. Blanket-armed Linus (Ron Duvernay), Lucy's brother, is an intellectual version of the picked-on innocent. And Schroeder (Biggs) and his piano, are sweetly in line with the musical prodigy Schultz penned. The only unrecognizable old-timer is Peppermint Patty (Jennifer Joss). In the strip she is a loveably irritating tomboy. Joss turns her into a shallow, bubbly valley-girl...