Word: womanizers
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...which declares that life begins at conception and bars the use of public funds and public facilities such as hospitals to perform or assist in an abortion. The statute, which has never gone into effect, would also forbid doctors in publicly funded hospitals to "encourage or counsel" a woman to obtain an abortion. Webster argued that several of the law's provisions would have little impact, implying that the court could uphold them without jeopardizing...
...Lucy character met her look-alike, the actress Lucille Ball, the script concluded that the "real" Lucy was the star-struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers % of her daughter Lucie Arnaz and son Desi Arnaz Jr., both of whom got started on Here's Lucy...
Despite the sophistication that underlay her slapstick and the respect she commanded as the first woman to head a studio, Desilu Productions, Ball said she saw herself as "not an idea girl but a doer." Like the silent comedians she studied (Buster Keaton, her onetime office mate at MGM, taught her how to handle props) and impersonated (her mirror-image confrontation with Harpo Marx and her Chaplin homage were priceless), Ball rehearsed every sequence obsessively. Yet when the cameras were rolling she made each gesture look spontaneous, each wisecrack seem an ad lib. Memorably, Lucy and her sidekick Ethel Mertz...
Richard Nixon, Noboru Takeshita and Ollie North may have much to answer for in the next world, but the savaging of a young woman in Central Park is not on the list. The effect of such preposterous links is to dilute the notion of individual responsibility. Entire communities are taught to find blame everywhere but in themselves. The message takes. New York Newsday interviewed some of the neighbors of the accused and found among these kids "little sympathy for the victim." Said a twelve-year-old: "She had nothing to guard herself; she didn't have no man with...
...uprising erupted in the occupied territories, international news organizations have suspected Israeli security agents of posing as foreign journalists in order to penetrate Arab villages. The government denied the charges. Last March, however, a British TV crew videotaped two Israeli agents disguised as journalists as they subdued a Palestinian woman...