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...likely that Hamnett picked up some of her more exotic expletives during a girlhood that was spent around the military. Her father was a British air attache, and she and her family shuttled between European air bases and embassies, where she played at being "mademoiselle on the reception line dying to go home and loosen her corselet." Everything got loosened up at St. | Martin's School of Art. Hamnett married, disastrously. With a friend, she had started her first fashion company in 1969, but it went bust, in the wake of a bitter divorce, in 1975. "I eventually lost everything...
...them. A 1985 Labor Department study found that while women held only 31% of the high-paying jobs as computer systems analysts, they represented 66% of the lower-paid computer operators. That disparity in salary and job skills reflects a well-documented fact: American women, from girlhood on, are less likely than males to be intrigued by computers. In a survey of high school computer- programming classes in Michigan, California and Maryland, for example, boys outnumbered girls 2 to 1. A nationwide sampling of computer summer camps found a boy-girl ratio of 3 to 1. A Johns Hopkins study...
Once, she and Johnny Campo Jr. were the only juveniles tolerated on the grounds at Belmont, where in the late '60s her mother was the sole female groom. Suddenly widowed, Cornelia Hayward elected this hard and unfamiliar work out of a vague affection for horses, picked up during her girlhood in Saratoga Springs. But mostly it was a way of keeping Katrina with her all the time: they rose together at 4 and went off to brush the horses...
...Alaska Pinter has taken a TV-movie disease-of-the-week subject and alchemized it into a searing, sympathetic portrait of a lost soul who must seek solace in the dreams and embarrassments of an idyllic girlhood. Wiest's performance is an astonishment. Every word she speaks rings with both a child's self-possession and a flinty woman's solitude; each step she takes is as shaky as an inebriate's on a tightrope in a high wind. And Pinter, by daring to be accessible, has fashioned a small miracle of a play...
...desire for ownlife (individualism). After all, Party-Member Winston Smith was one of the Ministry of Truth's most trusted forgers; he had always flung himself heart & soul into the falsification of government statistics. And Party-Member Julia was outwardly so goodthinkful (naturally orthodox) that, after a brilliant girlhood in the Spies, she became active in the Junior Anti-Sex League and was snapped up by Pornosec, a subsection of the government Fiction Department that ground out happy-making pornography for the masses...