Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Reilly is also honestly ambivalent about the trade-offs her emotional and economic independence presents: the guilt of making her work a priority over her children; the difficulties of finding men who respect her feminism; the loneliness of being single; and the pressure to be a superwoman--good mother, worker, lover, and feminist...
...dream-model for many good American families' plans for their sons. He was good-looking and charming, a stylish Boy Scout grown to adulthood. He was a promising psychology and law student, a bright light in the future of the Washington state Republican Party, and a sensitive psychiatric social worker. Yet he was also possessed by what he called his "little problem," which rode him even as his career in politics began to accelerate. Occasionally it would drive him to cruise neat suburban neighborhoods or college districts in his tan VW looking for young women to rape, strangle, sodomize...
...first murder, of a Leeds prostitute, in October 1975, the police are not close to an arrest. They have, however, built up a general picture of the killer; they know his blood type and shoe size and believe that he is between 30 and 50, an artisan or manual worker, powerfully built and white. Still, they cannot explain many points, including the variable intervals between killings that range from as little as three weeks to as long as 14 months...
Christine Panek, a hospital worker who lives in Kennebunk, Me., was driving home a few weeks ago, when she saw an injured robin in the middle of the road. She took it home, nursed it to health, then hatched a plan to reunite her patient with its migrated friends...
...Brazilian musical? The words evoke memories of Carmen Miranda, teeth gleaming, hips undulating, r's trilling, balancing a headdress of tropical fruit heavy enough to give the strongest Rio dock worker a hernia. That was '40s Hollywood, whose notion of Brazil was half picture postcard, half Daliesque daydream. Since then, a group of engaged intellectuals, collectively called cinema novo, have created a native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate...