Word: abzug
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DIED. BELLA ABZUG, 77, champion extraordinaire of women, labor, blacks and any other underdog society could muster; in New York City. With the slogan "This woman's place is in the House--the House of Representatives," she won a seat in Congress in 1970 and bowled over Washington with her in-your-face manner and her raspy voice for reform. Abzug's signature hats were as wide and as colorful as her crotchety chutzpah...
...Bella Abzug was one of the few people I know who were always right about character. Her politics came out of that unerring evaluation. Her ethical standards made her a human being far ahead of her time. She saw activism as the most important solution to improving the world, which she believed was suffering a nervous breakdown. "People should reach inside themselves and claim their right to equality," she would say. Of course, she was a feminist, but more than that, she was a humanist who fought against the pain, isolation and oppression that she felt women had experienced...
...week that Gloria Steinem got laryngitis. Other feminists, however, will have a harder time explaining their stammering and mostly inaudible performance during Week I of Presidential Sex Crisis III. Patricia Schroeder and Bella Abzug came up with tortured, self-canceling meditations on sexual harassment vs. good, wholesome, consensual sexual relationships. The National Organization for Women issued a touching call for public officials to pledge they would reject "the aphrodisiac of power" and forswear sexual contact with their office help. Apparently no one had explained to the team at NOW that the very essence of adultery is the breaking of pledges...
...BELLA ABZUG George Bush's sniping at her role in women's confab reminds world she's alive and kicking...
...been held in a more female-friendly place. But where exactly would that be? Saudi Arabia, for example? Imagine the logistic problems that would have arisen in a country where women are not even permitted to drive. Iran can be similarly eliminated, unless you think conference goers like Bella Abzug would happily go about in chadors. Algeria, of course, would be a security nightmare: in the past year there, more than 500 have been killed by armed factions--some for being known feminists, others for merely showing their unveiled face...