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...recorded, with Aretha Franklin, "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves", arguably the most straightforwardly feminist manistream pop song ever. In public appearances Lennox constantly challenges accepted gender norms. The point should be obvious: Lennox is succeeding in the male-dominated world of popular music without becoming a sex kitten, without exploiting her stunning good looks, without mouthing submissive lines put in her mouth by others. She is a talented, strong and competent woman and, unlike Greaves and Rader, she is willing to express the occasional and very human desires for protection and even overpowering love as a legitimate part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pitches, Redux | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...Naughty Nymphet of the Nile, carries off her dramatic duties with the most distinction, particularly when you consider the tough role, the skimpy costumes, and fact that Sellars makes Larson crawl on the ground blindfolded--still singing, mind you--for the first half of Act III. Her sex-kitten seduction of Caesar--complete with all-girl band and aerial entry--would have won her a juicy part in the Gold Diggers...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: On Opera: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...Jangles. When I got back, there was my girlfriend's friend waiting for me with another cat, Patches, which I had no heart to throw out, so I took him in too. So now I have Patches and Jangles. Meanwhile, my darling son Benjamin here brings home this kitten, Lucky. Lucky because he has a home. And I told Benjamin, 'You're going to be unlucky because I'm going to kick youse out.' " She wipes her brow with a dishrag. "Your turn, Benjamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Council Vice Chairman Elizabeth M. Touhey '86, who is charged with conducting the election, said she was "as happy as a kitten," after learning of the improvement in the field, but added that "we were definitely hurt by the initial [publicity] problems...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: 157 To Run For Council Seats | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...heavy on the cordite and flying feathers. Some go in for the big soulful eyes, pastel prettiness and comforting moral of the traditional Disney cartoon. Feed the Kitty (1952), the acme of Jones' career, is a fable about a bulldog who falls into mad maternal love over a winsome kitten. But even in Warner's usually violent cat-eat-bird, rabbit- humiliate-duck world, character is at the base of the comedy. Each nuance of eyebrow makes Bugs' almost inhuman sangfroid seem more endearing; each microsecond of exasperated deadpan underlines Daffy's status as Hollywood's least placable loser; every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: For Heaven's Sake! Grown Men! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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