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...deserves some telegraph lines in the background. It seems as though the play was plotted first, with characters added as an afterthought. A case in point: Cherry Jones's first appearance as Jody Bobby's blue denim romantic obsession is very funny she's a biker's moll with a nuclear war phobia and a vearning for a little TECC. when sheappears next, she has undergone a complete metamore phosis from a lizzy devil-may-care funster to a kind but money-grubbing waitress. Thematically, Bobby offer clear expression of the leveling power of social intercourse: dramatically, Bobby...
...maybe even a bit hoary: Gueret, a downtrodden bookkeeper, despised by his bosses and his landlady, stumbles upon a cache of jewels. They were lost in the course of a murder, which Gueret did not commit but Mme. Biron, the landlady, thinks he did. She is a retired Marseille moll, and in her eyes Gueret's bravado raises him from an irritating reminder of her reduced circumstances to a means of escaping from them...
There have always been women heroines at the Olympics, but they were seen as the exceptions. Although Babe Didrikson at 20 commanded the 1932 Games, she was nicknamed "Muscle Moll" and treated as some kind of miracle instead of a person who had been in training for ten years. In 1960, after Wilma Rudolph astonished the world by winning three gold medals, the press expressed surprise that off the track she wore skirts...
What is a woman? A "petticoat, skirt, moll, broad," according to one recent U.S. edition of Roget's Thesaurus. Also "the fair sex, girlie, distaff side, Venus, nymph, wench, grisette and bit of fluff." Such archaisms have a kind of antique charm for veteran Rogetophiles, but new times demand new stereotypes. Accordingly, the British publishing firm of Longman advertised in the London Times Educational Supplement for an editor to update its standard 1962 version of Roget's. The result, out last month after more than three years of work, brought some shocked reviews. Cried the London Sunday Times...
...wench.' And here's one that's out of the question - 'bit of fluff.' " But what does Lloyd's new British edition actually include as synonyms for woman? "Career woman," for one. And "Ms." And "women's libber." But also "broad, wench, moll, crumpet, nymph, damsel, dowager, lass, petticoat" and - heavens to Betsy! - "bit of fluff...