Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...becoming a firefighter has affected her outlook more than she expected. "I thought of it just as changing jobs, doing what I wanted to do. I never knew much about women's lib. Now I'm finding out what it means...
Candidates learned to schedule as few press conferences as possible, and to have some rehearsed ad lib ready for the cameras as they stepped from a plane. Thus bypassed, reporters badgered the candidates, "hoping," in Barber's words, "for some bit of quotable idiocy, usually making do with some hypothetical clash," and concentrated on gaffes...
...housewives won't have them, being just with-it enough to fill their bookshelves with Erica Jong but not serious enough to challenge their minds with something truly bad, truly thought-provoking. The acceptable suburban raunch used to be The Happy Hooker, pure and wholesome smut, until women's lib hit the suburbs and Fear of Flying replaced the dog-eared Xaviera Hollander paperback because Erica had something important to say. This was smut with a message...
While the Betty Freidans and Gloria Steinems stole the limelight and the headlines during the peak of the women's movement, these women watched from the sidelines, wondering if Women's Lib would ever have any relevance to them. But now they are speaking out. And they think what they have to say could greatly affect American society...
...Brinkley plans on something different from the tick-tock style of CBS's 60 Minutes and the razzmatazz of ABC's 20/20, but he is rather vague when he talks about Magazine's own format. Says he: "Mostly, the program will be ad lib. We are going to let the correspondents pretty much pick their own stories. There isn't going to be any central authority figure dispensing orders and dispatching people to this place or that." Will Brinkley be an anchorman or a host? Neither; he prefers to be recognized as the chief correspondent. Says...