Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feminist who has mastered the art of manipulating the Senate majority leader," ultra-conservative guru Paul Weyrich wrote last week in the Washington Times. "Men of his generation don't know how to handle aggressive women of a younger generation." Robert Novak, whose newspaper column is a bulletin board of the latest mood swings among movement conservatives, implied last month that Burke's brand of "militant feminism is the heart of the welfare problem." And, of course, comparisons with the pre-eminent woman of influence in Washington are inevitable: "If the American people like Hillary Clinton, they will love Sheila...
DIED. ONNIE LEE LOGAN, 85, midwife and memoirist; in Mobile, Alabama. For half a century, Logan delivered the babies of impoverished black families. In 1989 she published her reminiscences, Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, which became a best-selling feminist classic...
RICHARD GERE'S LANCELOT IS A cheeky existentialist. Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. Sean Connery's King Arthur is a leader for the Clinton era, well-meaning, essentially temporizing, as he impotently watches a great dream dwindle...
...John Paulis in his own way a feminist," saysTIME's John Elsonabout the Vatican's open letter to women in which the Pope apologized for the Church's past treatment. The Pope wrote that there is "anurgent need to achieve real equalityin every area," calling for equal pay, fairness in career advancements andcivil equality.But the Church is not a democracy, John Paul says, and there is still no room in the priesthood for women. The letter, Elson notes, is "entirely consistent with his theme of the dignity of human life. He has expanded his horizons to emphasize the role...
Richard Gere's Lancelot is a cheeky existentialist, Sean Connery's King Arthur is a temporizing leader for the Clinton era, and Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. The Camelot of Jerry Zucker's "First Knight," says TIME's Richard Schickel, is more a modern gated community than a myth-enshrouded, 6th century realm. And the great romance that was played out there -- legend's ur-Triangle -- comes across as not much more consequential than suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during...