Word: chauvinistically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World (due from Random House in May). But it's Angier, who has already won a solid reputation (and a Pulitzer Prize) at her day job, who most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a "Rorschach with legs." Woman: An Intimate Geography is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex...
...chauvinist governments, like those of France and South Korea, will probably resist foreign takeovers. And niche manufacturers like BMW and Porsche, whose ownership is largely in family hands, may also remain independent. Almost everyone else is vulnerable...
...There was an unwillingness to allow for all of us to have our own humanity, as if the men at Radcliffe were as much a part of the problem as any 'male chauvinist...
...breathing space and give-and-take ethnoreligious integrity. But recently that harmony has ceased to exist. Yugoslavia too had gone a long way toward evolving into the Switzerland of the Balkans, until Germany, the Vatican and a naive U.S. decided to unravel the Yugoslav federation in the name of chauvinist 'self-determination' rights. (The Rev.) GREGORY C. WINGENBACH Louisville, Kentucky...
...possible to separate the individual from his or her actions? Can we appreciate and applaud the Million-Man March despite the stained record of its organizer? Farrakhan has not made it easy for us to overlook his biases. Quite the contrary--the march itself reeks of Farrakhan's chauvinist attitudes. I have nothing against the all-male nature of the march. I believe there is a real need for a day in which black men can affirm their unique spirit. However, Farrakhan, in what I am certain he considered to be a token gesture to his black sisters, told...