Word: girls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fair game for satire. It is now p.c. to make fun of p.c. On last week's episode of Murphy Brown (arguably the most politically correct show on TV, now that Designing Women is gone), a newscaster got into trouble for calling a female fighter pilot a ''girl.'' Audience members at a town-hall meeting later overreacted with a torrent of p.c.-speak: a tall woman with glasses, for instance, demanded to be called ''vertically enhanced'' and ''visually challenged.'' The p.c. backlash is spreading across the cultural plains. A newly expanded edition of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook...
WINONA RYDER does not watch the news idly. When she tuned in two weeks ago and heard about a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped by an intruder during a ! slumber party, the 22-year-old Age of Innocence star found herself becoming emotional. ''I put my hands over my face like, 'No, no, no, this can't be happening,' '' says Winona, struck by the fact that the missing girl was from her own quiet hometown of Petaluma, California. ''A crime against a child I just don't understand. I had to do something.'' Winona, who has wrapped...
...Matthew Broderick) fakes an illness that will spare his fine intelligence another assault by the proponents of useless information. Ferris is no ordinary truant. The point of his exercise is not to waste the day but to spend it wisely. Or wise-guyly. So he will spring his best girl (Mia Sara) from school. He will get his best friend (Alan Ruck, who is lovely as a boy struggling for security) to abscond with the family Ferrari so they can tool about in style. They will talk their way into a chic restaurant, enliven an ethnic parade and, at every...
...both very critical, and we tell each other the truth.'' Offstage, she shows little of the fire that ignites her performances, but perhaps she does not need to. Says Elena Tchernichova, an A.B.T. ballet mistress and former Kirov dancer: ''God didn't make a single mistake with this girl.'' ALESSANDRA FERRI. No one would ever picture Ferri as a drowsing Oriental beauty. She seems made for motion: wraith-thin, bonelessly supple, with enormous dark eyes that radiate intensity. It is easy to see why Mikhail Baryshnikov's search for a partner stopped with her. ''Her special power comes from...
...Health and Human Services to prevent all further instances of calculated neglect. In 1983 the department proposed a set of controversial regulations requiring child-protection agencies to police federally assisted hospitals and examine medical records to prevent willful neglect. Shortly before the regulations went into effect, a baby girl identified as Baby Jane Doe was born with severe birth defects in Port Jefferson, N.Y. After consulting doctors and other advisers, the infant's parents decided on a program...