Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provocative idea, particularly coming from a self-described feminist. But it would probably never have propelled Sommers onto the talk-show circuit if the New York Times had not assigned the book to be reviewed by an academic feminist of the very sort Sommers decries. The June 12 review, by University of Pennsylvania professor Nina Auerbach, airily blew Sommers off as another "muddled" example of conservative backlash: "In Ms. Sommers' world, there are no powerful men, only women shrieking irrationally in a vacuum," wrote Auerbach. "But her treatment of social issues is so thin that...
Women's groups were furious at a Michigan judge's decision to take away a woman's three-year-old daughter because she had placed the child in day care while attending college. Circuit Court Judge Raymond Cashen awarded custody of the toddler, Maranda, to her father, arguing that "strangers" would care for her at a day-care center while mother Jennifer Ireland, 19, attends the University of Michigan. The child will spend days in her new home with her paternal grandmother while dad works. TIME Midwest correspondent Wendy Cole says the judge's language reflects the rhetoric...
...Aware Woman was attacked with butyric acid and its locks were jammed with glue; its staff members were stalked and threatened and their neighbors and children accosted. Finally, last year, a month after the murder of Dr. David Gunn by an antiabortion zealot 275 miles away in Pensacola, a circuit judge acted: he replaced a limited injunction against clinic violence at Aware Woman with one of the most severe arrangements in the country. In addition to the 36-ft. taboo zone, he forbade protesters within a 300-ft. radius to approach patients and employees unless invited, and he drew...
...with the skill and grace of Gangji, an employee of the International Tennis Federation, who makes a modest salary of $45,000 for the 35 weeks a year that he officiates at tournaments in New York, Lagos, London and various other way stations on the endless tennis circuit. He is one of the handful of salaried professionals in a field traditionally peopled with volunteers calling lines for a cold beer and a pat on the back. At Wimbledon the umpires receive about $200 a day plus meals for squinting into the near distance and making a call that could well...
...loved curtsying when it was over. Probably the greatest in the history of her game, she was always at her greatest here. But with her 38th birthday looming on Oct. 18, Navratilova these days is a step slower, a return shot shy and, in her valedictory tour around the circuit, too often immersed in memories rather than the task at hand. The rigid fat-free diet, the weight training for strength and the basketball drills for agility have only stayed, not stopped, the passing years. Navratilova at her best is still the fiercest force in what looks like a sport...