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…ESR MS S R ES UMES .AF..Ti,,a Wofl Wanted: Many Good Women At 26, Purdue graduate Mica Endsley designs airplane cockpits for the Northrop Corp. in Hawthorne, Calif. Endsley is a rarity-a female engineer. For women like her, mathematically and technically inclined, the demand is ex- traordinary. Although their ranks have increased dramatically in the last two dec- ades, women engineers are still outnum- bered by men 7 to 1. Nor do matters app...…

…A New Guide to Nonprofit Gold Off the corporate path fJim Clarkwanted tosay "just oneword" to"The Graduate" today, it would proba- bly not be "plastics." Instead, he might say "nonprofit," referring to employment opportunities with public-interest and so- cial-service organizations. As executive di- rector of a new job-listing service called Access, Clark can match career interests- in fields like political lobbying, community service, environ...…

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…ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT_ MOVIES 'The Big Easy' Does It A gritty role makes Dennis Quaid a star Forget"The Right Stuff" forasecond and Dennis Quaid's funny, sexy turn as flying ace Gordo Cooper. Forget this summer's "Innerspace" and Quaid's dashing performance as a micronaut injected into Martin Short's GI tract. Forget even "The Big Easy," on screen right now, in which he gives the performance of his life as a New Orleans police detective who ca...…

… whose prevailing spirit is often summed up in the slogan Laissez le bon temps rouler- Let the good times roll.) When a grinning Remy tells the starched lawyer played by Barkin, "Relax, cher, folks got a different way of doin' things down here," it's both a seduction and a rationalization: sure, he's corrupt. Everybody else is, too. "There's a system down there," Quaid says. "Out here in L.A. there's no room for the particular kind of corrupti...…

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…BOOKS Two Hotshot Authors Aim for More Fame Bret and Tama write fashionably, if not well hey are the "next big thing" in litera- ture, the most fashionable of a new wave of young writers who are trendi- er than Bermuda shorts in October or peach champagne. Bret and Tama. (That's Bret Easton Ellis, author of "Less Than Zero," and Tama Janowitz, author of "Slaves of New York," for those of you who are, like, totally out of it.) And for those ...…

…ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT so fragmented-some of the narrators are completely undeveloped-that "Rules" ends up feeling like endless MTV videos strung together. There is no story here- just the depressing flotsam of a spoiled generation. While striving to be just as hip, Tama Janowitz is much less serious than Ellis. (At least he hasn't made an Amaretto ad yet.) In fact, she may be the first true "lite" novelist-all fizz and no substance. Unlike Ell...…

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…a TELE VISION A Tasty New Role Actor-comedian Tim Reid comes naturally to his character as career-switching Frank Parrish Sometimes art actually does imitate life. Take the case of Tim Reid, the actor-comedian best known for his role as deejay Venus Flytrap on "WKRP in Cincinnati." In the early '70s, a few years out of college, he was a successful business- man for Du Pont. He made good money. He had a wife and a son and a three-bedroom hou...…

…I- I THE CALL, ROBERT R. McELROY-NEWSWEEK Appetite for the unexpected: Seal was chosen from among1,200students who tried out MTV's New Anarchic Force Giving up engineering for the video limelight I our average man will shave before a job interview, but Kevin Seal is not your average man. As the tape rolled for his audition to be a veejay on MTV, he smeared himself with shaving cream. Then, shaving wildly, he spread the stuff around his fac...…

…M Y T U R N l Its Not a Dream World No longer is college a time for idealism; it is becoming just a time to acquire marketable skills BY JOHN BURKMAN Jr. of NEWSWEEK, and near the end, somewhere be- Last week I happened to be glancing over an old issue tween Axthelm and Will, was a promo for NEWS- WEEK ON CAMPUS. In the background of the ad, fittingly, was a picturesque view of a campus. Never has a single photo conveyed a more idyllic impr...…

…There's a college course that's helping Rob Bright succeed in his other courses. The Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Army ROTC is the college elective that teaches the planning and time-management skills you can put to use right now. As well as the confidence and leadership you'll need to succeed in your future career. Enroll in Army ROTC as you would for any college course. There's no commitment to join the Army. And Army ROTC won't ta...…

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