Word: barbarae
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...unfairly closed. Much like this fall's 56-page Peninsula issue, the the Holocaust ad cloaked its aggressive position by carefully appealing to "free speech" sensibilities--an appeal that often finds its greatest supporters among the journalism community. Such a tactic offers, as Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson noted in yesterday's Boston Globe, "a grammar of reason with a rhetoric of hostility." Peninsula attacked homosexuality and homosexuals, but did so with what its authors termed "charity" and "concern;" thus, the assault was made more powerful by the extent to which it also refused the refutation...
...being raped. Yet everything valid in The Beauty Myth was said in Ephron's famous essays on breast size and vaginal perfumes, and male oppression is nowhere better described than in her article on women in the magazine world. She was portraying betrayed women -- Pat Loud on TV, Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel in the Maryland Governor's mansion -- long before she became...
...follows the well-covered case of New Hampshire high school instructor Pamela Smart, convicted in 1991 of persuading her teenage lover to kill her husband. In Maynard's novel the cold-blooded, career-obsessed killer is Suzanne Maretto, who hungers to become the next Barbara Walters. Her husband is a sweet-tempered restaurant manager, and her lover is an emotionally fragile teenage...
Associate Editors: William R. Doerner, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill...
Administration: Helga Halaki, Barbara Milberg...