Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Triantifillou presented a resolution to the Cambridge Women's Heritage Project in honor of Harriet A. Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, conductor on the Underground Railroad and one-time Cambridge resident. Jacobs lived in Cambridge for five years in the 1870s...
...years, most recently in books like What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us by Danielle Crittenden. But it's Wendy Shalit's debut book, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue (Free Press), that is currently bubbling in the public debate. The book has earned the neoconservative author an interview by Katie Couric on the Today show and inspired heated online debate, as well as a drubbing from many across the feminist spectrum...
Shalit longs for all sorts of corseted restraints. She wants policemen to stop her if she smooches in public, and society to "young lady" her, as in, "Young lady, what are you doing?" But do grown women really want to be young ladied? Karen Lehrman, author of The Lipstick Proviso, agrees that women want courting and less coarseness, but not a staid modesty. "I think a better word is elegance," she says, pointing to Lauren Bacall and Grace Kelly in their subtle but steely glory. Now there's something worth returning...
...have to be a professional athlete to reap the benefits of stretching. Start by banishing the idea that it has to hurt. The most you should feel is a mild tension. Bob Anderson, a fitness expert in Palmer Lake, Colo., and author of Stretching (Shelter Publications; $13.95), tells his clients to "forget about no pain, no gain. Stretching should be enjoyable...
...guys," are the result of severe sexual abuse as a child; they include a six-year-old named MOZART, four-year-old twin girls named Anna and Trudi and a 30-year-old seducer named Stroll. ROBIN WILLIAMS plans to play West in the film. The author and his wife Rikki, who live near San Francisco, will be going to Hollywood next week to see the film's producer and screenwriter...