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Your report on career-minded Japanese women [Dec. 12] was especially interesting to me. I have been employed by a commercial broadcasting station in Tokyo for eight years and have been working with a male staff without any problems. While women still encounter discrimination, the advancement of Japanese women over...
Respectability. Many who do not like what the protestors did to Weinberger feel there must be a certain level of respect shown to our government officials. Yet, in a large political forum, the respect shown a political figure need not be the same as that shown to a private individual...
But not to worry. What may, at first, be a commercial inconvenience will surely, in the end, turn into an artistic coup. Terms of Endearment does work off the conventions that rule more ordinary movies, but only to enrich its own singular voice. Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones...
The movie has other flaws, as well. Instead of developing issues like the ones posed by Cruise's girlfriend (Lea Thomson)--who attacks the barriers non-athletes encounter in getting beyond jobs at the local grocery store--Chapman repeatedly resorts to less dangerous, more predictable cheap sell tactics. A student...
Currier Coach Mike Shaw did not expect to encounter so much opposition from the usually meek Lowell squad. "We played well, but they came out and played really inspired football. We had a real scare," he said.