Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought she was the glasnost equivalent of Nancy; no continent the two occupied at the same time seemed big enough. By comparison, last week's distaff summit was a close encounter of a gentler kind, and a small, makeshift stage at Wellesley College was more than space enough for both. This was Barbara Bush's coming of age as First Lady, her riposte to student complaints that she did not reflect "the self-affirming qualities of a Wellesley graduate." The Soviet First Lady confined herself to predictable Kremlin- speak about perestroika, leaving the ovations for her hostess...
Most Overdue Liberation. Shattering the traditional male domination of serious restaurant cooking, an innovative crew of distaff chefs -- among them the pioneering Alice Waters of Berkeley's Chez Panisse, Anne Rosenzweig of Manhattan's Arcadia and Susan Spicer of New Orleans' the Bistro at Maison de Ville -- proved that wearing skirts was no barrier to donning toques...