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Move over, Martha. Get out of the way, Ralph. There’s a new girl in town (assuming that the term “girl?? can refer to a 71 year-old girl-at-heart and “town” can refer to Palm Beach, Florida, one of the richest towns in the country), and her name is Lilly Pulitzer, creator of the brightly colored, Palm Beach clothing and lifestyle brand bearing her name. Lilly began her business in the late 60s, but today enjoys more buzz than ever as she whimsically prances barefoot into...
Before the soundtrack could loop “Jesse’s Girl?? and “Burning Down the House,” Jenna’s wish comes true. Jenna Rink, now played by the fabulously lithe, Alias star Jennifer Garner, wakes up in possession of a Fifth Avenue apartment, a hunky hockey playing bed buddy who calls her “sweet bottom,” and a drawer full of B-cup bras that she can fill out without the help of a wad of quilted Charmin two-ply. This Jenna shops at Henri...
However, much of the burden of running the team still falls on the shoulders of Daniels and Cameron. The pair usually decides on routines, formations and personnel, does much of the administrative work, organizes fundraising—the trip to nationals alone cost about $2000 per girl??and Daniels is even the squad’s new web master...
...post-feminist generation, these concerns about use of “girl?? seem petty and dated. Girls born in the ’80s grew up enjoying the benefits of Title IX; this year, more women than men were admitted to Harvard. In many ways, we take our basic equality with young men for granted. But “girl?? is not exactly analogous to “guy”; we do not call the men of our acquaintance “boys.” The infantalizing connotations of “girl?...
...trouble is, of course, that there is no obvious replacement for “girl?? in our lexicon. Britney neatly summed up the problem when she moaned that she was not a girl, and not yet a woman: No term for the middle ground has gained common currency. Seeking to remedy this, I proposed some options to a focus group consisting of my roommate...