Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maureen Dean, the china doll of the televised Watergate hearings, claims that this is her life-with a couple of small complications. For one thing, she was dragged into and out of that mess by the same man: Presidential Counsel John Dean. For another, Mo makes it perfectly clear that she was not born yesterday. At 25, the ex-stewardess and daughter of a onetime Ziegfeld chorine had been married twice and was a frequent nightclub companion of Hollywood swingers. As she tells it, when one engagement soured, Mo cannily retained a lawyer and had the ring appraised...
...living doll, everywhere you look...
...more than passable when he's dancing. But the rest of the cast is just too much. The same heavy-handed twenties hamming that the movie ostensibly spoofs seems to have infected their acting style. Debbie Reynolds starts out insulting Kelly with all the petulance of an angry kewpie doll (and of course for him it's love at first sight, since she's "the first dame who hasn't fallen for his line since he was four"), but she ends up melting in his arms with Shirley Temple sweetness. Donald O'Connor is so frenetic as Kelly's comic...
...Shut up, you black bitch!" shouted the nursery school student as she gave her black doll a sound wallop. The toddler-a little black girl-was just "playing house." Her teacher-a white woman-did not know what to say. Should she remonstrate with the child and tell her that "black is beautiful" or something of the sort? The answer, say two black psychiatrists, is no: the concept of black pride "is too intellectual" at this age. "In a case like this, you could say, 'Nadine, I'm sure the baby will stop crying if you hold...
Despite the doll debacle and other happenings viewed as sexist, like the sale of souvenir potholders, the conference managed to end on a relatively positive note. The 1,300 official delegates unanimously approved a ten-year World Plan of Action designed to improve the status of the world's 2 billion women. The 48-page plan, like all U.N. resolutions, is not legally binding, but member nations are urged to incorporate it into their own political and economic programs. Australia's Reid worried that the new resolutions would wind up in the "bottom drawers of government...