Word: gurley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came as a jolt to members of the Manhattan publishing community--chief among them Whitney--when the revered editor was ousted a week ago and replaced by her rival, Cosmo editor Bonnie Fuller, 41, who took over Hearst's sex-and-the-single-girl book from Helen Gurley Brown just 18 months ago. Fuller's successor at Cosmo will be Redbook editor Kate White...
Your failure to include Helen Gurley Brown was astonishing. Author of the seminal book Sex and the Single Girl, she was a leader in liberating women's bodies and minds from the constraints of the past. She has changed the lives of countless women. More than that, her magazine, Cosmopolitan, is today carrying her message to countries outside the U.S. It is unthinkable that she would not be included in the list of influential feminists. Am I a prejudiced party? Of course. I'm her husband. DAVID BROWN New York City...
...Rules Girl. A Rules Girl is "a creature unlike any other." A Rules Girl knows better than to ask a man out--or even talk to a man first; she is "easy to be with" but hard to get because she is very, very busy. Three decades after Helen Gurley Brown's classic Sex and the Single Girl offered women the heady advice that men are "cheaper emotionally and a lot more fun by the dozen," all that solo flying seems to be less than thrilling. That must be why self-help books on dating have at last evolved into...
ASKED TO DEFINE THE IDEALIZED WOMAN WHO HAS COME TO BE known as the Cosmo Girl, editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown once replied, "She has always been sexy, slender and bosomy." The latter adjective--so evocative of old-fashioned feminine allure, of torpedo bras and Pursettes, of Helen Gurley Brown herself (though she is actually wafer thin)--describes what is probably the Cosmo Girl's most famous attribute. "A beautiful bosom is a beautiful bosom," Brown elaborated. "If you don't have one, you look on with awe and envy...
Among the less reticent were people who are paid to discuss sex: therapists, Cosmopolitan editors, Penthouse publishers. "Dr. Ruth Westheimer suggested that one option left out of the study's sexual-preferences section was sex under the armpit," says New York correspondent John F. Dickerson. "Helen Gurley Brown explained her 'rent a husband' theory, where an older single woman can get a married man who 'would be happy to oblige because he's probably not getting it at home.' And Bob Guccione told me he had never met a man who had not masturbated or a woman...