Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's a woman in the wings!" crowed an invitation from the directors of San Francisco's militantly male, amateurly theatrical Bohemian Club. Eyebrows rocketed, but there was a fine turnout to welcome the first woman ever to be invited inside the Bohemian's private dining room: Actress Helen Hayes. The first lady of the footlights had a grand time, was treated to a sort of geriatric Hasty Pudding Show by the club's stage-struck captains of industry. "It went off beautifully," observed one member cautiously, "but it's not the sort of thing...
...Carson, 52. Canadian-born comedian, master of the double take and the slow burn, long stereotyped as the blustering loudmouth who always loses the girl; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Most memorable roles: the boorish Joe the Twirler in 1942's screen version of Thurber's The Male Animal, and Big Daddy's grasping son, Gooper, in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...often shown as heartless temptresses, vampires, even assassins, the undoers of men. Munch did a number of works called Jealousy, in which the man is always the one betrayed. What is so nightmarish about these pictures is not the harlotry of the woman, but the helpless humiliation of the male...
Gradually, this faith is destroyed. The gifts-money, a stove, earrings-that the tiger has lavished on his mother in the guise of promotion benefits from his job with the telegraph company are revealed to be thefts from the homes of whites. Moreover, he is a male prostitute catering to the jaded tastes of some of the richer white women in town. He hasn't delivered a telegram for years; the last one is on the wall, a fake he made up as a teenager to give his mother the comforting lie that she craved...
...often an extra X. There are XXX girls who have two dark spots in their body cells-one for each of the deactivated Xs, for only one can remain fully functional. In one form of sex abnormality, the chromosome composition is XXY. Such a child may have some male characteristics, but will also show the typically female dark spot of the second X chromosome...