Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bell, a self-described liberal progressive, adds, "I would say 98 percent of the people who ask me are pleased with my position, which is that I believe that a woman should have every right to exercise control over her reproductive rights regardless of term of pregnancy, race...
Running the campaign for Zwirn and his slate of two town council candidate, one candidate for town clerk, and one woman who was purportedly running for district court judge but refused to campaign, I realized that the vicious Republican cycle is also perpetuated by the quality of candidates the Democrats...
...woman running for town clerk is dynamic, but she ran only after losing the nomination for judge. She's a good campaigner, but her political ambitions are elsewhere. And the woman running for judge is a disagreeable do-nothing, a poor excuse for a candidate...
Tongue-in-cheek humor also lifts Freddy's Nightmares above the jolt-'em-out- of-their-seats level of its theatrical namesakes. Freddy (Robert Englund) can still be one ruthless customer: in the season opener, he sliced off a woman's head, which plopped to the floor like a ripe pineapple. Most weeks, however, he serves merely as the wisecracking narrator for unrelated stories revolving around dreams. Many are unexpectedly lighthearted; a few even approach satire. In one of last season's entries, a yuppie career woman had a thirtysomething nightmare about having a baby: her boss replaced...
...have just as easily happened here." Residents stocked their homes with bottled water, canned food, batteries and first-aid supplies, snapped up wrenches to turn off the gas and prepacked earthquake kits that sell for $30 to $210. Some of the preparations had an only-in-Hollywood quality. One woman whose emergency gear includes a butane curling iron says she is looking for a battery-operated hair dryer that can be used if electricity is knocked out. "Why look a mess even in a crisis?" she teases...