Word: paglia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these programs have managed to grab the attention of 13-year-olds and thirtysomethings alike, it is because they have avoided coming off as dramatized infomercials for the National Organization for Women. Most of these characters are in fact the product of a Camille Paglia feminism that embraces the very pragmatic idea that women can be smart and successful and still care about shoes, Vogue and, of course, the charms of the opposite...
...Send Kenneth Starr a basket of fruit and the complete works of Camille Paglia...
...They're all conformist," Mansfield says. "They don't have any critics [of feminism] within the department, and they never invite any. They have nightmares about Camille Paglia...
...from the Today show to the front page of the London Times. Rush Limbaugh invited listeners to call in and deplore this latest p.c. outrage. Kathie Lee Gifford announced, "We've gone too far with this now when we can't let a child be a child." Author Camille Paglia, quoted in USA Today, described the incident as an example of "archfeminist ideology gone amuck...
...depressing, that song and dance she did on the talk shows," noted cultural critic and openly bisexual Camille Paglia. "She was asking America, 'Is it O.K.? Will you still like me if...?' It was wimpy. It robbed the act of any courage." But then Ellen, a onetime Top 10 show that plummeted to 39th in the ratings last season, has never been marked by bold confidence. Aimless and conceptually muddled from the outset, when it debuted as These Friends of Mine in March 1994, the sitcom has become so creatively stultified that a controversy over homosexuality is truly the least...