Word: pollitt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helped anything." Well said, Cam! Why are these people interesting? Your personal love letter to Uma Thurman? I mean, I'm sure whatever species she's from, she's a very attractive member of that species. But as a model of anything important? Thanks, I'll take Katha Pollitt. Sure, Matt Damon is cute, like the way your fourth grade class gerbil was cute, even after it ate pencil shavings and died. You proclaim Vincent Gallo "the most brilliant man ever." His photo-essay reads, and I quote, "And my friend Val Kilmer was dating Cher. Then Cher...
...NAME SPEAKERS INCLUDE... Alex Cockburn, Jim Hightower, Christopher Hitchens, Molly Ivins, George McGovern, Katha Pollitt, Calvin Trillin...
...President:/ she'd take the Pentagon by storm/ in halter dress and rhinestone extras," Garrison writes in "An Idle Thought." (It could be retitled "Oh, How I Would Have Put You to Shame, Monica Lewinsky.") Garrison's efforts won her a book blurb from feminist columnist Katha Pollitt, who described the poems as "brave, elegant, edgy...
...Pollitt sees an ulterior motive behind the assault on no-fault divorce: a backlash against feminism. While husbands once initiated most divorces, the situation has reversed itself: more wives now seek divorces. And if you believe Ashton Applewhite, author of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well, divorce, though usually painful at first, is a true liberation for many wives. In her book, she profiles 50 women, including "Dina," an immigration attorney. The mother of two sons, Dina regrets agreeing to share custody with the children's father. Ultimately, though, she works things out, illustrating Applewhite...
...recent decades. She calls the phenomenon "expressive divorce" and locates its origins in postwar prosperity. For Whitehead there's a close connection between soaring divorce rates and middle-class narcissism, and though divorce rates have actually plateaued, the siren song of personal liberation sounds as sweet as ever. Pollitt is contemptuous of the notion. She says, "The picture is that people are going along married and in a state of, if not ecstasy, then reasonable content. And then somebody decides to be selfish, frivolous and pleasure seeking...