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Well, what about Lynn Yeakel or Barbara Boxer, one keeps wanting to ask, running for the Senate at the "dangerous age" of 51 -- or any number of our year-of-the-woman stars? Are they in denial too? Women already spend much of their lives in service to biology -- bearing and raising children; so how sad to arrive, finally, at the empty nest, only to find that it's bubbling over with its own toxic hormonal brew...
...help wondering how menopause would be experienced in an "anophiliac" setting -- where elderly women receive the same respect and honor as gray-templed males. Hot flashes might feel like surges of energy, or like the "rush((es)) of revelation" described in an earlier menopause best seller, Barbara Raskin's ebullient 1987 novel, Hot Flashes...
...tabloids to museums. A movie based on him might have been a marvel of period realism or a sharp study of the primitive as aspiring artist. Instead Howard Franklin's film involves him in a stupefying tale of government-Mafia corruption and a feckless romance with a nightclub owner (Barbara Hershey). It is, very likely, the year's most stupidly wasted opportunity...
Beltran sang in Greek, Spanish and English, while Paul sang a tune about Wilbur, the politically incorrect rat. The concert lineup also included local artists Barbara Kessler, with Orrin Star and Rod MacDonald making surprise appearances...
...presidential debates, for example, are hints at some of the foreign policy missteps that would shape Bush's four years in office. Bush painted this cheery portrait of emerging freedoms in China less than a year before democracy was massacred in Tiananmen Square: "The changes in China since Barbara and I lived there are absolutely amazing in terms of incentives and partnerships and things of that nature." No reporter was clairvoyant enough to ask the Vice President to assess the intentions of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But Bush brought up Iraq himself as a way of dodging a politically tricky...