Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works hard at making The Angel of Darkness (Random House; $25.95) as impudent and beguiling as The Alienist and for the most part succeeds. The old gang is back: Miss Howard, the derringer-packing feminist detective; Moore, the boozy New York Times reporter; Cyrus, the piano-playing coachman; the redoubtable Isaacson detective brothers; and Stevie, the reformed street urchin, who later, as a grown man, narrates the adventure. (His urchin usage is not unfailingly convincing, as in "I remember reading in The Principles of Psychology, that doorstop of a book--what Professor William James had written...and which...
...though, it's also about Carpenter-McMillan, a striking blond who is a fixture on California talk shows. A self-styled "conservative feminist," she was particularly prominent as an abortion opponent until 1990, when she admitted she'd had one herself as an unmarried college student. She still opposes abortion but has turned her attention to child-abuse issues as head of the Women's Coalition, an organization largely funded by her wealthy husband that operates out of their Los Angeles home...
Carpenter-McMillan says she's just encouraging Jones to follow her instincts, but that may not be prudent in such a pressure-cooker case. "Can a nonlawyer steer this vessel to port, or is Paula going to go down with the ship?" asks feminist attorney Gloria Allred. Carpenter-McMillan says she's looking for a new lawyer to take the case, "one that I feel really good with." And who might that lawyer be? Carpenter-McMillan denies that her husband William, a personal-injury attorney, will now take over. But then she chirps, "Wait till my husband demands pictures...
Clinton's team hasn't been sure-footed throughout the case either. Washington superlawyer Robert Bennett, for instance, ran afoul of the President's backers in the feminist community when he threatened to drag Jones' sexual history into court. And some of his critics point out that he was brought in to settle the case, not try it. If a deal isn't struck soon, Jones may not be the only one looking for a new attorney...
...Pulitzer prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, resettling his mythical Britannic majesty and his fractious daughters on a modern Iowa farm. You also have to admire the nerve with which she attached pop-psych subtexts to her rearrangement, the daring with which she turned the whole works into a feminist tract...