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...stress the inability of teen-agers to understand the use of contraceptives or the consequences of nonuse. Says one Chicago girl: "Birth control pills-I'd heard of them. People tell me they make your hair fall out." Captain Carol Bryant, who runs the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial home for unwed mothers in Chicago, talks of the paradoxical sophistication of the 13-or 14-year-old girl who tries to "act older, just like Brooke Shields," but does not "connect intercourse with pregnancy in any meaningful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Black and White, Unwed All Over | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...hero is named George Spelvin (Jeff Brooks), a theatrical pseudonym for an actor playing a secondary role in a play. Spelvin has unaccountably wandered into stage company that he has never kept. The time is the present, but the other actors arbitrarily inform him that he is Edwin Booth's understudy in Hamlet and must go on tonight since "Eddie" has been injured in a car crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Avaunt, God | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...actually a sculpture by Realist Mags Harries. It is only one of a scattering of Harries' bronzes-a stuffed shopping bag abandoned by a phone booth, a half-eaten lunch left on a bollard-that grace Chelsea, Mass., a town attuned to a movement that hopes to make cities more livable. The driving force of this operation is a national organization called Partners for Livable Places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Toward More Livable Cities | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...distant from that holy perception of God as Manipulator. Raised in Catholic schools. Davis was familiar enough with the Church to write a play about it. Mass Appeal, after a two-and-a-half week run at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, opens on Broadway tonight at the Booth Theatre...

Author: By Aldrich N. Potter, | Title: A World of Ordered Chaos: Behind the Lines With Bill Davis | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...rushing total set a new school record, and Yale has had some semi-tough halfbacks in its time--Albie Booth, Calvin Hill and Dick Jauron...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale's Diana Punctures Brown Defense; Penn, Dartmouth Score Opening Wins | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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