Word: careerist
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...generalize," Star writes, "about a group that is said to be politically disengaged and politically correct...technologically savvy and unconditionally ignorant, busy saving the planet and craving electricity and noise, prematurely careerist and proud to be lazy, unwilling to grow up and grown up already...
During the bitter primary campaign, Hillary was called a conniving careerist eager to impose her communistic agenda upon the White House. At the Republican National Scarefest in Houston, Pat Robertson surmised that her goal was to sabotage the institution of marriage altogether. (That was right before he declared that feminists were really witches who want to kill their children...
While the Republicans were busy painting Hillary as an overly ambitious careerist, she seemed to be consciously modifying her style. In the past few months, she has softened her image (much to the dismay of some feminists), grinning and gripping like a mayor's wife and baking cookies to show she is not a harridan. She has even learned to stand at the back of the stage and look at Bill with a convincing imitation of the Nancy Reagan gaze...
...head to turn the 80s lawyer into a compassionate human being. In The Doctor, it took a bout with cancer to cure the 80s doctor of his own chronic self-absorption. In Hook, it took a trip to Never-Never Land to cure the 80s corporate raider of his careerist monomania. In Life Stinks, the 80s millionaire didn't know what he had until he literally lost everything...
...million that night," says University of Southern California law professor Susan Estrich. More important, perhaps, Hill's putative Democratic allies on the Senate Judiciary Committee sat back as judges while the Republicans played the role of prosecutors, ultimately painting the Yale-educated law professor as a delusionary careerist with a split personality and a tendency to cull lawbooks for references to pornographic film stars. "The asymmetry was tough to watch," says a top strategist for the Democrats. "The Democrats have always been the defenders of women's issues, but when one of those issues was brought to center stage, they...