Word: cosmopolitanism
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...journal of police science, Jack may have gone uncaught, but his identity was known to Scotland Yard: "He was the heir to power and wealth. His grandmother, who outlived him, was very much the stern Victorian matriarch . . . His father, to whose title he was the heir, was a gay cosmopolitan and did much to improve the status of England internationally...
...eight motion pictures, most of them (The Group, The Sand Pebbles, The Adventurers, Soldier Blue) requiring beauty, a Trojan endurance and little artistry. Offscreen, her talents are so plentiful that they almost drive her to dilettantism. She has modeled, shot photos for Playboy, and written articles for Vogue, Esquire, Cosmopolitan and the Los Angeles Times. In Getting Straight, Co-star Elliott Gould helped unearth a tantalizing shard of acting ability. She received $200,000 for a western. The Hunting Party, which she has recently finished shooting in Spain with Oliver Reed (Women in Love). She has just finished filming Mike...
...thoroughfare is alive virtually round the clock. Some moviehouses close their doors only four hours out of 24. Many of the sidewalk food stands never shut up shop, and the blocks on either side of Times Square offer a pungent cosmopolitan tour of cheap cookery-hot dogs, pizzas, pastrami, chow mein, hamburgers, tacos. Garish neon lights stare down on cameras, transistor radios and the other gadgetry that will soon be bought by gullible visitors or grace the lockers of soldiers and sailors who have been on leave in New York. Record stores blare their wares onto the street while teen...
...Manhattan leafleteers collared brokers at financial-district subway stops early in the morning; teams of women activists made the rounds of corporations whose advertising "degrades women" to present them with "Barefoot and Pregnant Awards." Also women are boycotting Cosmopolitan magazine because it emphasizes sex rather than the person. Editor Helen Gurley Brown, author of Sex and the Single Girl, nevertheless endorsed the women's liberation movement as "fantastic...
...have a bad habit of taking important themes and mashing them into pulp. They did it with mental illness (David and Lisa) and youth and violence (Last Summer). Now, with Diary of a Mad Housewife, they have reduced the agonies of middle-class marriage to a snide, skin-deep Cosmopolitan-style short story of social climbing and terribly sophisticated adultery...