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Word: bitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show is practically the only place on earth where a man can ask earnestly and with utter immunity, "Say, pal, what's this bitch's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Philadelphia: Superdogs | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...looked at the coroner, the coroner looked at me, and I looked at the sergeant. Then the sergeant wrapped up the money in a piece of newspaper lying nearby, and handed it to the coroner. "It goes," he said sadly, "to the State of Maryland. The son-of-a-bitch died intestate, and with no heirs." The next day I met the coroner and found him in a low frame of mind. "It was a sin and a shame," he said, "to turn that money over to the State Treasury. What I could have done with $138.67! (I noticed...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: A Lime and a Pumpkin | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

...course, these "strong" women are often hard to take seriously, given the baroque fantasy worlds they inhabit. Moreover, the strongest among them embody one of the culture's most retrograde stereotypes: the conniving bitch. Such roles are an "outlet for women and their fantasies of power," suggests Tania Modleski, professor of film and literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. "But these fantasies are also negated at the same time, because it's not right for good women to lust for power. So they are put in the person of a villainess." Most feminists, however, seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: They're Puttin' On the Glitz | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...husband murdered and frames an innocent woman for the crime. "You get all the aggressions out of your system." Diahann Carroll, who joined Dynasty at the end of last season as the haughty Dominique Deveraux, announced proudly that she would be playing "TV's first black bitch." On the other hand, Collins insists that there is more to Alexis than malevolence: "Women look to her struggles, her strong sense of identity, her feeling that she will never give up. She is a strong believer in herself, and I think that's what a lot of women identify with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: They're Puttin' On the Glitz | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...images of the Black woman are as other the emasculating matriarch or the bitch goddess," Brookins said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Scientists Discuss Women's Studies Research | 10/10/1984 | See Source »

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