Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ORGASMS So men are preoccupied with sex, and women with their bodies, right? Better take note: a tally of articles on sex and fitness in the past four issues of Men's Health and Cosmopolitan suggests otherwise...
...article discusses women's rights abuses around the world and questions the adequacy of U.S. foreign policy to eliminate such injustices. To those unschooled in the universe of women's magazines, Glamour may conjure up a pure lipstick-and-trysts image not dissimilar from that of its competitor Cosmopolitan. The truth is, the publications are quite different because Cosmo is the sort of magazine in which the words foreign and policy would never make a joint appearance, save perhaps in a piece on how to pick up sultans of small Arab countries or graying German auto executives...
Your failure to include Helen Gurley Brown was astonishing. Author of the seminal book Sex and the Single Girl, she was a leader in liberating women's bodies and minds from the constraints of the past. She has changed the lives of countless women. More than that, her magazine, Cosmopolitan, is today carrying her message to countries outside the U.S. It is unthinkable that she would not be included in the list of influential feminists. Am I a prejudiced party? Of course. I'm her husband. DAVID BROWN New York City...
Then came the bombshell from the Journal. One quote was particularly galling: a spokesman for the parent company of one steak-house chain--a company based in Wichita--said that his company's restaurants call a Kansas City strip a New York strip because "it's a more cosmopolitan name." Condescended to by someone from Wichita! That's what comes from turning against your own cattle. As we used to say in Kansas City--this was before they asked us to cut down on agricultural images--sooner or later the chickens all come home to roost...
Zack Norville, who is one of them, is wearing a necktie with a print of $100 bills, and he's talking about what a fine place this is. "Very cosmopolitan for a small town in the South." He is the daddy, by the way, of another famous Daltonian blond: newswoman Deborah Norville is his little girl. Yep, Marla Maples and Deborah Norville, and that's just the start...