Word: distaff
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...women failed to appreciate the historic nature of Clinton's quest. Sarah Palin's good looks, meanwhile, "contributed to the narrative of her as an idiotic pawn." Still, the author's in-depth interviews with powerful female politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Claire McCaskill and Janet Napolitano show that the distaff political troops are on the move...
Though the First Ladies managed to keep the summit's distaff side free of controversy, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan did not fare so well. On the eve of the meeting, Regan advised the Washington Post, in an interview about the wives' press role, that many of the paper's female readers would not understand "throw-weights or what is happening in Afghanistan or what is happening in human rights. Most women . . . would rather read the human-interest stuff of what happened." The remarks predictably infuriated feminists and provided news-starved journalists with a few stories. When reporters...
Nearly 40 years after her father's blunt comment, Guiliano says she has figured out the difference between American and French lifestyles--at least on the distaff side. Her assessment of American culinary errors: "Fast foods; rushing; not taking the time to sit down for meals, and not eating for pleasure. I see people eating, and they're just gulping it down. They're eating almost on autopilot, like robots...
...beginning to look that way. Today's Web offers a distaff cornucopia much like the practicality oriented formula in women's magazines. Behind giants such as iVillage, Women.com Chickclick.com and Oxygen lies a universe of specialized "affinity portals": fashion and beauty sites like Eve.com and Sephora.com BestSelf.com for weight management; TheKnot.com for weddings; Stork.com for baby gifts...
...early barnstorming games," he says, in Hershey, Pa., and in New York's Long Island. Wherever the team went in those days, the hero that girls sought out was Hamm, now 27, whose speed and finesse still give defenders the shakes. As the team's best known player--a distaff version of Michael Jordan--she had the burden of not only scoring goals but also being Miss Publicity. A self-described emotional child from a military family who lost an older brother to a rare blood disease (and still wears his initials on her soccer shoes), Hamm found the soccer...