Word: ironizing
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...Emerging from far outside the ranks of the Tory Establishment and claiming only four years' experience in a minor Cabinet post (as Education Secretary in the early 1970s), Thatcher was virtually untutored in the art of governing, untested under fire. But in four years' time she earned the nickname "Iron Lady," as a tough, gritty leader who seemed to relish a good scrap. Her personality, in a sense, became government policy. "The resolute approach," Tories labeled it. By the time she called new elections last month, Thatcher dominated the national stage as no other Prime Minister had done since Churchill...
Harvard men wishing to pump iron have fewer places to do so, thanks to a recent policy implemented by the Harvard Recreation Department. Following a campaign by a contingent of undergraduate women (including a number of whom are involved in the Harvard College Women’s Center or are members of religious groups such as the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS)), the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) will now hold women-only hours for six hours a week. The change in policy shows a readiness to put minority interests ahead of the entire community, even when it creates a disparity...
...inevitable restoration of the family bloodline - come apart so? Bill's shivving Barack in South Carolina looked bad, but wasn't it a clever play to the cheap seats that would attract more votes than it would lose? Hillary's tears in New Hampshire rusted the iron lady a little, but wasn't that just a brilliantly tactical softening of her image at the precise moment it was called for? Maybe. But maybe she just got tired and cried. And maybe Bill just said something dumb. And if the Clinton campaign crashes and burns, maybe she was just another politician...
...Hardball--is there a more male title in all of TV?--claim that "the reason she may be a front runner is her husband messed around," had Rush Limbaugh asking whether America wants to watch a woman aging in the Oval Office and faced a young guy yelling "Iron my shirt!" at a rally. (Not to mention: a male journalist writes about a woman presidential candidate--and of course he runs with the "soap opera" metaphor...
This is not to say men are now unthreatened by women in power--just ask the "Iron my shirt" guy. It is to say that people are less monolithic than the narratives of politics and show biz have made them out to be. Lipstick takes a step toward showing that. For instance, the publisher of the tell-all unfairly labeling Wendy a "bad mommy" turns out to be a woman (Lorraine Bracco...