Word: ephron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More and more career women are deciding it is just that. They are choosing pregnancy before the clock strikes 12. Says Writer Nora Ephron, 40, who had her first child in 1978: "Just once in my life I would like to do something that everyone else isn't doing, but that seems not to be my destiny...
...most famous example of the trend Ephron laments is not even an American one. THE HEIR IS BECOMING APPARENT, punned a tabloid headline about Prince Charles' wife Diana. Other headlines read: NAPPY HOLIDAY and BACK WITH A BUMP. The blooming princess attended a dinner two weeks ago after a respite from public appearances. Her condition, pending delivery, has resulted in hundreds of gifts?from Teddy bears to a minithrone...
...Teenage Romance or How to Die of Embarrassment, Ephron...
...that she's always feral. In fact, Harrison is as fundamentally chatty as Nora Ephron. In this collection she seems to be chatting over morning coffee with her best Greenwich Village friend. Her prose is wicked conversation, full of anecdotes, observations, comic asides, and devastatingly sensible reasoning. But the casual tone conceals a penetrating seriousness. Despite her glibness Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is always driving home a larger point...