Word: ms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What happens on campuses in the rest of the country? I saw "Animal House." I saw "The Accused." I've seen Ms. magazine's national survey of college women, conducted in 1985, that says one in six had suffered a rape or attempted rape in the previous year...
...Clinton could have been more tactful. Still, the media should have focused on the issues she was trying to raise--the meaning of fidelity, women's roles, and sexual morality in the 1990's as opposed to the 1950's--instead of on how insulted Ms. Wynette felt. Mrs. Clinton was only doing what all politicians do in an age of sound bites: use a cultural icon (like the typical country- western- song cheated 'n' mistreated patient wife) to make a point quickly and concisely...
Clinton has instilled a new sense of pride in many citizens of his state. Ms. Rodham was shocked when she arrived at the University of Arkansas Law School and had a student complain of her demands: "What do you expect of me? I'm only from Arkansas." She did not realize that he might have been guying this traveler into Arkansas, in the defensive old form of mockery; but even this hangdog defiance of the outer world masked an uneasiness about the state's reputation. Journalists covering Clinton in Little Rock are constantly asked by a suspicious citizenry, "What have...
...AIDS and the conservative backlash seem to have matured the community, ripening the Advocate into a newsmagazine and evoking such other debuts as QW and Genre. Of these, the glossy, full-color Out is the most professional looking, drawing contributors from the Los Angeles Times, the late Connoisseur and Ms., as well as mainstream advertising from Benetton, Absolut vodka, Geffen records and Viking Penguin press. Says editor Michael Goff: "We're called Out because coming out is the one thing all gays and lesbians have in common." The problem: it may be the only thing they have in common...
...here's another thing I've learned from diversity at Harvard: Different people aren't necessarily that different after all. Ms. Denmark and Mr. Iowa can probably find a lot of common ground. They're not aliens, after all. They're people...