Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four women sitting together in a bar and say, 'Hey, what are you doing here all alone?' " Still, she does not intrude her sexual politics into the show, and she makes fun of everyone, feminists included. "What," she asks, "would be your position on women's lib if you were a passenger on the Titanic...
Street Pro. For example, forced to work with a female partner (nicely played by Tyne Daly, daughter of Actor James Daly), he makes the predictable grumpy noises about women's lib. Yet?surprise?he ends up not merely respecting her but more than a little in love with her. As he looks around for clues to the munitions robbery and extortion plot that are his major concern, Harry shows a gift for talking to militant blacks, if only because they respect his rough, straight-forward machismo. Indeed, it turns out that while the entire liberal establishment believes the robbery...
Goodbye Embrace. Seven days after the kidnaping came women's lib: Graziella turned up unharmed, even though a $1.5 million ransom demand had not been met. That night, acting on a telephone tip, police found the body of a tortured hoodlum, his face burned and battered beyond recognition, his death caused by strangulation. The next day a Monreale jeweler was murdered in his shop-only five minutes after Giuseppe Quartuccio had been seen giving him the Mafia's classic goodbye kiss on each cheek. Asked about the ominous embrace, Quartuccio said sadly, "My friend? He had the courage...
...pastoral, primitive islands of Micronesia, bare-breasted maidens and wives do a lot of the hardscrabble work and are among the primary breadwinners, going to the reefs and lagoons to fish for the family table. Naturally, their labors make life a lot easier for the menfolk. Women's lib notwithstanding, the U.S. has not approached this state of affairs-which male chauvinists may or may not applaud-but the fact is that women are surging into America's labor force, increasingly doing what in simpler times was called men's work. In the process they are drastically...
...spontaneity that makes her long-mastered speech sound newly minted, she hard-sells Jimmy Carter. These two sides of Rosalynn Carter, velvet and steel, have caused a minor quandary: she cannot decide whether to dub her swift little campaign plane Magnolia One or First Person, a women's-lib twitting of the First Lady title...