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Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal made their grand return to television in CBS's Good Sports. Their strained repartee made Nick & Nora look like a match made in heaven. Producer Norman Lear was born again in CBS's Sunday Dinner, a family comedy with a religious twist. Jimmy Swaggart's sermons got more laughs. James Garner, starring as a con artist turned city councilman in NBC's Man of the People, proved likability goes only so far in TV. You also need a script...
...BEEN A FEW weeks since the hoariest of the hoary Ivy League single-sex clubs--Yale's Skull and Bones--won a stinging legal battle to go co-ed. But Harvard's final clubs are still bumbling around with a single-sex policy. And now there's a new twist...
...other side, accommodationists make many of the same arguments with a different twist. It is religious people who have been ostracized, argues lawyer John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute, a not-for-profit religious-liberty advocacy organization backed by conservative Protestants. Whitehead entered the church-state fray in 1976 when he defended a fourth- grade girl in California whose teacher said she could not wear a cross on her necklace. "Society has been secularized, and the religious person finds he's the odd person out," Whitehead says. "In public schools, religion is something to be avoided, obsolete...
...other people's conventions (a little Mae West, a touch of Judy Garland, maybe all three Andrews Sisters rolled into one). But if as a performer Midler conjures up an older, bolder show-biz era, she doesn't nostalgize it. She gives it a rude, shrewd yet affectionate twist, satirizing and energizing it for contemporary audiences...
...staff of Peninsula anticipated some criticism of its magazine. But Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes provided an unexpected twist in BGLSA's Friday rally...