Word: womanned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcomes most of the new manners. He displays an admirable generosity of spirit in allowing women to pick up lunch checks. "I was also delighted," says Morrow, "to give up the little hopping stutter-step necessary to place me on the curbside when walking down the sidewalk with a woman. But I haven't quite abandoned the habit of holding a woman's chair. What I do is place one hand on the back of the chair and then fall into a sort of abstracted trance until the woman is seated, as if I were not entirely responsible...
...started firing. That was a signal for other commune members, who suddenly appeared on the runway and shot at the planes. Ryan, 53, was killed, as were four others: NBC Reporter Don Harris, 41, and Cameraman Robert Brown, 36; San Francisco Examiner Photographer Gregory Robinson, 27; and an unidentified woman. At least eight others were wounded. In Georgetown, a woman member of the sect killed herself and her three young children. A U.S. State Department spokesman said there were "alarming indications" that cult members in Guyana and California were on the brink of committing mass suicide...
...posh Michigan Avenue stores, she will find a luxurious office filled with glass-and-chrome modular furniture. A receptionist tells her that for $150 to $250, payable in advance in cash or by Medicaid or credit cards, she can have an abortion. But what the typical Chicago-area young woman seeking an abortion is not told is that within the next few hours, she may be rushed through an operation that is not only excruciatingly painful but also life endangering...
This movie asks several less than momentous, perhaps risible, questions. Could a figure very like Columnist Jimmy Breslin, the slob-throb voice of New York's little guy, find love and happiness with a young woman cut from the same fine cloth as Dancer Gelsey Kirkland? Can the public be persuaded to accept, as a heartwarming example of the human spirit's indomitability, her triumph over what appear to be terminal leg cramps on opening night of her first starring part in a ballet? Can another big crash-bang score by Bill Conti once again drown...
...another boat, a 38-ft. sloop he renames Carolyn, equipped with radar of his own invention and a purloined U.S. antitank TOW missile, Hardin sails off to stalk and destroy the black Moby Dick. Symbolically, his shipmate is also black, a physician, as was his wife, a young woman who had pulled him from an English beach and back to health, if not sanity...