Word: careerist
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Like the Trendy and the Statement Maker, the Dress-for-Success-er undercuts her personal image through a misuse of fashion. The careerist who feels insecure about her prospects within a man's world, and depends on a "Successful Person's" wardrobe to foster respectability, mocks her own professionalism. Her appearances at even minor occasions (say, a career seminar and Kennedy school panel discussions) with a surgically precise manicure; anchorwoman-perfect makeup; and topiaried coiffure, only magnify her self-consciousness. The incongruity between the Dress-for-Success-er's actual and contrived selves transforms her into a caricature...
...tried to bring Hu to personalities. Peng had been too proud and stubborn, he said. Lin Biao had been too ambitious, a careerist, sucking up to Mao, then trying to kill him. Finally he came to Jiang Qing. Here Hu's anger burst. "If you were to write a biography of Mao, she would be the tragedy of his life." Then, an anecdote about Jiang Qing escorting Imelda Marcos, the First Lady of the Philippines, on a visit to Tianjin. The state cavalcade roared through the peasants, ran one down and killed him. Stop, said Imelda. No, said Jiang Qing...
...Little Sex, Manhattan is still where a coupla crazy kids can get their Wasp jollies while jogging through Central Park, skateboarding past the Chrysler Building and making love in an apartment the size of the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian wing. He (Tim Matheson) is a young Mad Ave. careerist. She (Kate Capshaw, whose resemblance to both Julie Christie and Diane Keaton makes her odds-on favorite as Warren Beatty's next costar) teaches at a girls' private school. They get married. His eye still wanders. Her eyes narrow. It has all been said before, most eloquently...
Fast Track [Highways and Heroism]--It's still the same game in True Confessions, though now DeNiro is not only in complete command of himself as a Catholic careerist, but he's even distinguished, a commanding member of the Establishment...
...young man awash in a sea of hardboiled, frowzy, careerist "women," I would like to meet someone with the grace and loveliness of Lady Diana...