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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women are looking sexier these days because there's a lot of competition on the streets with all those women going into the workforce," Klemesrud quotes Mable Morgan, author of The Total Woman. Morgan adds, "They know they have to look good--they're out there in the open. Sex is one of those driving forces that must be taken into account." The argument is as old as the hills, if not older. Women have always tried to use their sex as a driving force to con men into paying some sort of attention to them. It would indeed...
...prestigious job. "I am too old and I wish to live longer," he explained. "A younger man is better for the job." (Hua is 57.) Similarly, al though few experts believe that the protesters would have denounced either Mao or Hua without Teng's permission, he chided the author of a wall poster that described Mao as being "70% good and 30% bad." Said Teng: "Mao was better than that. I myself am only 60% good...
John Cheever, author (Falconer, The Stories of John Cheever), speaking in Boston: "All literary men are Red Sox fans. To be a Yankee fan in literary society is to endanger your life...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel-prizewinning author: "The truth is if Tolstoy would live across the street, I wouldn't go to see him. I would rather read what he writes...
...spunky private detectives, aviatrixes and reporters of the '30s who prefigured Superheroines Wonder Woman, Supergirl and, later, Doonesbury's Joanie Caucus. Women in the Comics (Chelsea House; 229 pages; $15) follows them all and includes parallel histories of women in the real world. Author Maurice Horn is a bit too inclusive: Playboy's Little Annie Fanny and bizarre S-M panels from Europe earn this great compendium an R rating...