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Word: chauvinistic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chasing women kind of comes with the territory in the male-chauvinist Senate, like the springy black leather couches. Making millions from inside contacts after Government service is not all that grave a sin either, else an army of former lawmakers now behind the polished doors of august law firms would be in irons. It was the booze that got John Tower in real trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Dead Soldiers Along the Potomac | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Kimura's research is intriguing, but scientists will reserve judgment on the results until they are confirmed or refuted by other studies involving greater * numbers of women -- and men. In the meantime, the findings could easily be misused. For one thing, the study could encourage some male-chauvinist bosses in their belief that women workers are unpredictable and unreliable because of their menstrual cycles. Says Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women: "I think the study could be used by some people to denigrate women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Your Hormones Up? A study links estrogen levels with performance | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...sustains his opponent's objections, Cayea now looks pleadingly at the jury and shakes his head in a gesture of grief. After taking Applied Theater Techniques' course, a female attorney in California overcame her irritation at a judge who insisted on calling her "little lady" by imagining the male chauvinist in a pink tutu and ballet slippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: They're Playing Up to the Jury | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...women, cruelly indifferent to his children. Some of this is, of course, true, and it has not been a secret for years. The Big P.'s personal life was no oil painting, and Huffington documents it with zeal, leaving one in no doubt that he was to ordinary male chauvinist pigs what Moby Dick was to whales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils Of Pablo PICASSO: CREATOR AND DESTROYER | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...getting female reporter. (Older observers can recall that Brenda Starr has been tearing through the comic pages since 1940, and that real-life role models of the period included such famous bylines as Anne O'Hare McCormick, Martha Gellhorn, Dorothy Thompson, Genet, Marguerite Higgins and Dorothy Kilgallen.) As a chauvinist creation, Lois not only bungled most of her assignments and repeatedly double-crossed the faithful Clark, but also subordinated all professional demands to her one romantic obsession. After she parachutes into a flood, she tells her rescuer, "I'd like to be in your arms always, Superman! As your wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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