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LEAD: In Hollywood's latest view of Wall Street, working women can apply garish eye-makeup by the pound, sport wild hairdos and reveal shapely legs swathed in leather mini-skirts - and yet be virtually invisible to those around them.
LEAD: IN an academy not far from Princeton, 30 clean-cut young women in a classroom listen attentively to a lecture whose topic is assertiveness training. No, these are not business students learning to climb the corporate ladder. Rather, they are nannies-to-be mastering skills to soothe a child's tantrum, negotiate less housework or handle a pass from a child's father.
LEAD: Something snapped for Robert Allan Ackerman, the director of ''Legs Diamond,'' when his own mother (''my own mother!'') called to ask if the show was closing. It seems she'd heard rumors.
LEAD: TO hear J. Michael Divney tell it, the reason that WP Centre Associates, his limited-venture partnership, is planning a massive shopping and entertainment complex in the heart of this city is so he can see a movie.
LEAD: Someone asked Rick Pitino what he thought of the Knicks' 117-102 victory over the Washington Bullets last night at Madison Square Garden.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 14, 1988, covering December 18, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
1988Lizzie Deignan, English cyclist[†]
Elizabeth Mary Deignan is an English professional world champion track and road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. She was the 2015 World road race champion.
1988Seth Doege, American football player[†]
Seth Colton Doege is an American college football coach and former quarterback, who is the current offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Arizona Wildcats. After playing college football for the Texas Tech Red Raider, he was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2013. On February 27, 2014, he was signed to the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. Doege was Texas Tech's starting quarterback for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
1988Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete[†]
Brianne Theisen-Eaton is a retired Canadian track and field athlete who competed in the heptathlon and women's pentathlon. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Theisen-Eaton holds the Canadian record for the heptathlon with 6,808 points, as well as the indoor pentathlon with a score of 4768 points. Theisen-Eaton is a heptathlon silver medallist from the 2013 World Championships and 2015 World Championships, as well as a pentathlon silver medalist from the 2014 World Indoor Championships. She is the first and only Canadian woman to podium in the multi-events at the World Championships. Theisen-Eaton won Commonwealth Games gold in the heptathlon at Glasgow 2014 and was the 2016 World Indoor Champion in the pentathlon. She also won a bronze medal as part of the women's 4 x 400 m relay at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.
1988Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer[†]
Syed Imad Wasim, commonly known as Imad Wasim, is a Pakistani cricketer who played for Pakistan national cricket team from 2015 to 2024. He is a left-handed all-rounder. Imad is considered as a Twenty20 specialist and played for many franchises around the world. He was a key member of the Pakistan team that won the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy.
1988Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (born 1908)[†]
Niyazi Berkes was a Turkish Cypriot sociologist.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]