Word: libbed
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...already hard enough to find a place to eat in Lowell House that they can't afford to break chairs at each performance, but even so the actors handled the mishap with ease. A successful ad lib can lighten a play but a bad one can murder it, and there is already plenty of murder in Ira Levin's comic thriller. So the actors stayed cool, and the tightly constructed, well paced production didn't founder...
...effort to advance the cause of Women's Liberation, the feminist movement has launched a host of publications ranging from radical underground broadsides (Off" Our Backs) to slick monthlies (New Woman). Some of these new journals now appear only sporadically because of money troubles. The latest Lib effort previews this week as a 44-page supplement to the year-end issue of New York magazine. It seems far more promising than its predecessors, principally because its editor is feminism's superstar, Gloria Steinem...
...little loose of the social straitjacket that once forbade them to call a man on the phone; initiate a choice of sexual partners rather than accept what circumstance deals them; or deviate from the admen's norm in clothing, speech and thought. No, the world since women's lib has become a terrifying jungle for nice guys who never did anyone any harm; nowadays they can't even watch television without fearing that the Amazons will burst in, hunting hapless creatures to bend to their incomprehensible whim and will...
Between women's lib and gay lib, the sexual twists at the modern office can get grotesque. Mazzei devotes a chapter to "Women at Work" and another to "When Cupid Gets Stupid." Among his guidelines: do not compliment women for wearing appropriate business dress; be sure to tell your employer if you are bringing a gay lover to a formal company occasion. Mazzei offers a couple of pages of suggestions on the issue of a kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting...
...soon as I could." Certainly there is nothing intrinsically extraordinary about her achievement. Women have been doing just about everything else in recent years, even piloting jet aircraft as big or bigger than the shuttle. So why not space? Indeed, in a Marxist-Leninist bow to women's lib, the Soviets launched a woman cosmonaut precisely 20 years ago, though a second did not follow until last summer (see box). "It's too bad," scowls Ride, "that society isn't to the point yet where the country could just send up a woman astronaut and nobody would...