Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...layers of makeup, elaborate hairdos and drop-dead gowns seem a far cry from the ideal of "natural" beauty that arose in the 1960s and '70s. Yet the actresses so lavishly accoutred insist that their roles are not a step backward for the feminist movement. "Natural is wonderful, but natural can also get a little boring," says Fairchild, 34. "I think the women's liberation movement finally has come full circle. Women have come to be confident enough in themselves that they don't feel they have to be stripped of everything to be taken seriously, that...
...years. The tactics are more subtle, but the underlying issues are still present. Claude A. Allen, a spokesman for the Helms campaign, recently referred to Hunt's gay supporters as "the queers." And Helms's campaign literature is replete with subtle references to black voter registration and the feminist movement, both "the threats" to the white, male-dominated world of North Carolina's past...
...feminist critics of Holy Scripture, there is something grievously wrong with the beginning of the Twenty-Third Psalm in traditional translation. "The LORD is my shepherd" has a distinctly male aura to it. Far better, say the critics, to render David's words in a neutral way: "God is my shepherd." Similarly, sexism is allegedly rampant in the commandment given to Moses, "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife." Fairness would dictate an even-handed condemnation by adding "or husband...
DIED. Alice Neel, 84, unconventional expressionist painter who specialized in representational but psychologically revealing portraits (including an occasional TIME cover: Feminist Kate Millett, 1970, Franklin Roosevelt, 1982) of cancer; in New York City. Neel starved during the Depression but eventually partook of the New Deal's WPA assistance. Long submerged in the tide of abstract expressionism, she was rediscovered in the late 1960s, and following a 1974 retrospective at New York City's Whitney Museum had numerous one-woman and group shows...
...write mostly about the women I know and their lives," said the leftwing feminist to a mostly female crowd. She said she took most of her story ideas from her own experience, but tries to combine them with universal dilemnas...