Word: dowd
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Thus, at a time when I should be consumed with acquiring the wit of Maureen Dowd, the political-savvy of Mary Matlin and the resiliency of Hillary, I instead find myself preoccupied with answering the pop-culture queries of Carrie Bradshaw. When my thoughts drift to interviews inevitably I am left with but one damning interrogatory gnawing at my brain: Despite strides in gender equality is it really true that what’s below a woman’s waist is still more important that what’s coming out of her mouth...
...Niall O?Dowd, publisher of New York?s Irish Voice and part of an Irish-American network that helped bring about the 1994 I.R.A. cease-fire, said there is "no question" that the unease in America influenced the I.R.A. decision to decommission. "The deal was underway, but the events of Sept. 11 and the Colombian episode accelerated the process," he said. Ronnie Flanagan, the Ulster police chief who has spent decades combating the I.R.A., said the "attitude of the American public, even among those who would be sympathetic to Irish republicanism, changed and changed permanently...
...secrecy, which De Chastelain says is needed to continue the process. Gina Murray, whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb exactly eight years before decommissioning, is not alone in having doubts. "I think I have to see it to believe it," she said. But O?Dowd says the actions solved the republican movement?s problems in the U.S. at a stroke. At home, the peace process is revived, but some of its deepest problems haven?t been resolved...
...Useful words, because New York is not only a newly patient town, it is still an anxious town, more anxious than ever - anxious, now, not in its classic Woody Allen way, nutso with neuroses, but anxious in the way of being truly scared. Maureen Dowd told us in the Times last week that Boomers everywhere, still worried about Numero Uno above all else, are now busily loading up on gas masks and all manner of anti-toxin. I don't see it, not in my experience. But I do see anxiety that wasn't there three weeks...
...other day, Dowd went into her ghastly "us-girls-dishing" mode, in which she talked about "guys trapped in their tiresome libidos." Dowd in the us-girls mode sometimes mentions "my girlfriend." I wonder if the Times' op-ed page, which once took itself so seriously, would publish a male columnist who wrote about gals trapped in their tiresome sex drives, and described going shopping with "my boyfriend...