Word: blanced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jarrett N. Blanc...
...belief in your partners and, most important, guts. So it makes sense that p.r. executives--who are as powerful in Silicon Valley as they are in Hollywood--demand stock in their clients' start-ups. But even stock may not be enough. Simone Otus, 39, co-founder of p.r. firm Blanc & Otus, takes on only companies that offer status. "We want to pitch the really hot companies to build our own brand value," she explains from her ancillary San Francisco office overlooking the Bay Bridge. "We look like we're cool because we have TiVo," she adds, referring...
Each week 25 new companies audition to become Blanc & Otus clients. Otus picks up six a year, because even though she pays $70,000 a year to 28-year-old account executives, she cannot import them from the Midwest fast enough to handle the business. "We could make $4 million more in business each year," she says...
Your report on females amazed me. I climbed Mont Blanc around my 49th birthday; it was a truly wonderful experience. Until I read your article, I had no idea that the desire to do this had been brought on by menopause. I wonder how many other fiftyish women have done the same? I had in my youth done a bit of climbing, but never before (or since) have I managed such a summit. SUSAN JAIS Carqueiranne, France...
...should be awed and amazed that there are so many women eager to celebrate their female selves: scientists and science writers exploring the female body and evolutionary history, rappers asserting their tough-minded female sexuality, lawyers and homemakers marking their menopause by throwing a party or climbing Mont Blanc. Call them "estronauts," these new bio-positive women, for their ability to feel the delicious tug of the hormonal tides as well as the gleaming challenge of the mountain peaks. Or--what does it matter?--just call them human...