Word: chauvinistic
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Midway through the third and final set, Bobby Riggs shuffled to the sidelines complaining of cramps in his playing hand. As Rheo Blair, nutrition adviser of the Bobby Riggs Traveling Chauvinist Pig & Nostrum Show, massaged his falling prince's hand, some anonymous TV director captioned the scene-and the entire evening-with commendable brevity. Floating across the screen came the words BOBBY RIGGS 55 YEARS...
...Riggs had no such confidence. He had tuned into the public eye as taunter of the Cause, and his mouth put him treacherously far out onto the line. The chauvinist pitch was only his means to exploit the public temper. So he sloganeered like a mechanical mouthpiece,. or the little kid who recites what he's heard from his parents' discussions -- not because he understands the import of the phrase, but because he'd seen it trigger an excitement...
...fact, the most plausible representation of a single working woman (only a male chauvinist would use the terms bachelor and girl to refer to a mature woman) is someone who is trim, well groomed and stylishly dressed−much like Mary Tyler Moore herself...
...hand-tooled escutcheon (a razorback rampant on a field of Pampers). In search of a new role, he discovered that statements like "a woman's place is in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order" got him publicity, so he kept repeating them. Then he aimed the chauvinist pitch at women's tennis. Billie Jean King and a few other leading players had been attracting attention with their demands for better treatment and larger purses for women. King, in particular, became something of a heroine of the women's movement, although, like Mrs. Riggs...
...Riggs spectacular once a year-the best woman player of the year, that's the one who'll have to play Bobby Riggs." He has also raved about crashing the Virginia Slims tour ("How will they keep me out? Do they want to be called female chauvinist sows?"). He wants to run this opera bouffe all the way, until he is 75 or 80. And that, gentlemen and ladies, is what is known as hustle...