Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Security is really tight in the President's box. One agent checked me for bombs and threw out half my monologue.' " Hope's memory is as big as his desert mansion. Today's one-liner is stored away for use as tomorrow's ad lib. "Pseudosmart. That's the way I describe my stuff." says he. "I want the audience to enjoy it like...
Rightists and leftists reacted with rare unanimity. "Freedom has taken a vacation," declared the opposition daily Le Quotidien de Paris. Complained the leftist Libération: "They have stolen our liberties for a fistful of dollars." In Paris, more than 3,000 people marched to the Finance Ministry, chanting, "Vacations! Liberty...
...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...