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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quintessential small-town girl, Connie is beautifully portrayed by Laura Dern. She's a shimmery blonde with the kind of natural, unfinished all-American good looks that an Eileen Ford talent scout would spot beneath all the pancake powder and lipstick. But Dern plays Connie as a girl who has not yet come into her own. She's tall and thin and leggy, but she walks with a knock-kneed self-conscious slouch. When she tries to be sexy, the worst of Valley Girl fashion comes out of the closet. Too much hairspray, too many jiggly bangles, plastic colorful earrings...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Cruising Back to Adolescence | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...alliance will also send funds to "establish a mobile educational resource center in Cape Town," said Kriseman...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Students To Raise Relief Funds | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

Blacks will be free to move from one city or town to another seeking work but will be allowed to live only in authorized residential areas, not with the country's five million whites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa to Abolish Passes Restricting Blacks | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

...policy statement submitted to Parliament in Cape Town described the laws as "a relic of the past." It said the system, called influx control, would be replaced by "planned, positive urbanization" involving a uniform identity document for all races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa to Abolish Passes Restricting Blacks | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

...Some form of influx control may be brought in through the back door," said Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize and has just been elected archbishop of Cape Town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa to Abolish Passes Restricting Blacks | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

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