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...moles" (spy jargon for longtime double agents) quickly learned that Josie Bissell and Esther Mullin had other prophets, among them Kate Millett and Betty Friedan. Indeed, the Revolutionary Committee had formed as a separate faction because Bissell and Mullin found too much "male supremacy" in the Weather Underground. The women refused any special treatment from the men and forbade them to use such words as bitchy, ballsy or aggressive when talking about women. They also never wore dresses or makeup, except as disguises, condemning them as symbols of male exploitation that were also out of keeping with...
...veneration of grossness and fatness," says Feminist Author Kate Millett (Sexual Politics) of the Amazonian anatomies she has sculpted out of papier-mâché, chicken wire and liquid cement. Kate's nine-foot sculptures, titled Naked Ladies, go on display next week at the Los Angeles Woman's Building. "I don't know where they came from," muses Millett, 42, who has been sculpting for 18 years. "I guess I just wanted to play around." Among the sculptures: a giant woman pushing a shopping cart, a housewife watching the soaps and chatting on the phone...
...virtuoso whose blinding technique appears an easy rival to that of Vladimir Horowitz. Yet Berman's is a humble kind of virtuosity that is not afraid of understatement. His debut, the start of a 15-concert tour of nine states, occurred in a walled-off end of Millett Hall, the Miami U. sports arena-which had surprisingly good acoustics. A burly bear with stooped shoulders, ginger-colored beard and long brown hair that waves up at the neck, Berman came out looking grim and tense. Once he was at the keyboard, all illusions of nerves or cumbersomeness vanished...
Virginia Woolf was upset with the way women seemed only to write from anger. But, as Spacks points out, anger is their strength, the energy fueling the female imagination. Too much of this fuel can cause a backfire, of course, and Spacks finds fault with Kate Millett for this reason. Indeed, those who enjoyed the rage in Millett's writing may be disappointed with Spacks's detached style...
Flying, her second book, records that painful process and the events of the frenetic year after the publication of Sexual Politics, when the author was being hailed as the Karl Marx and the Mao Tse-tung of women's liberation. Millett describes how her "sisters" alternately pushed her into the spotlight and chastised her for being a star. While making a feminist film documentary (Three Lives) in London and New York, and trying to maintain her quiet artist's life with her Japanese husband Fumio, she had to deal with the more bizarre aspects of what she calls...