Word: flapper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oppressed, to the long-suffering victims of sexual exploitation and abandonment, but an elementary lesson in power politics: meet your favorite heroine and watch her gain power through victimization. From the bronchial death-throes of Clarissa Harlowe to Pearl in The Scarlet Letter, "a pre-vision of a Fitzgerald flapper," women in fiction seem to have mastered (or mistressed) the fine art of psychological castration...
...Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies, where White was her dancing partner in 1915. When White went on his own four years later, he took Tiny with him. She soon shimmied her way to $1,000-a-week stardom in films and on the stage. Her career faded after the flapper era, and she spent her last years alone in a hotel off the Great White...
...company. At one point, the men's chorus enters in art deco sweaters, knickers, and argyle socks; they carry banjos, and they sing "I Want to Be Happy." A "Tea for Two" number, set in Atlantic City, has the fifty garbed in the best and worst of flapper couture. At the finale you can hardly see the stage for the sequins...