Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dressmaker's dummy with which her unknowing husband consummates the marriage. Fleeing west, Constance disguises herself so persuasively as the brave and manly Philippe Fox that she is appointed Assistant Deputy to the United States Marshal for Southeast Arizona, and inexplicably becomes a 'member of the masculine gender, complete in all physiological requirements as to genitalia...
Such activity has jumped significantly for the 1982 elections. Not only are more female candidates running at all levels than ever before, but women on the whole are becoming politically independent. For the first time in recent history, a "gender gap" has emerged between male and female perceptions of current national leaders; polls show as much as 12 percent fewer women than men support the Reagan Administration...
TACTICALLY, THE WOMEN'S electoral movement is changing, too, Strategists used to maximize the number of female officeholders, regardless of their stands. But that tokenism increasingly seemed counter-productive, so women's leaders are now scrutinizing potential candidates more for their ideas than their gender...
...answers, has disappeared, leaving the slim trace of a smile between the lines. Mantissa is a jeu d 'esprit with a vengeance, its principal characters, like so many of Fowles' earlier creations, held in thrall by forces they cannot quite explain. Erato and Miles are prisoners of gender. When they squabble, as they do throughout the rest of the novel, they helplessly re-enact timeless wars between the sexes...
...fairies. Lapine's boldest experiment is to cast a woman (Marcell Rosenblatt) as Puck. But she has been directed to substitute screeching tomboyishness for sly sprightliness, and the resulting overaggressiveness is painful to watch, something like seeing the only girl on a Little League team overcompensate for her gender. Oberon is done to a star turn by William Hurt (Body Heat), who is so in love with the sound of his own voice that he refuses to let Shakespeare's be heard. He mashes the meter and minces a large portion of the play's enchantment...