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...years of feminist striving, the category "woman" has expanded to include anchorpersons, soccer moms, astronauts, fire fighters, even the occasional Senator or Secretary of State. But "female" still tends to connote the oozing, bleeding, swelling, hot-flashing, swamp-creature side of the species, its tiny brain marinating in the primal hormonal broth. From Aristotle to Freud, the thinking on gender has been that only one sex had fully evolved out of the tidal pool, and it wasn't the sex that wears panty hose...
...There are signs of a growing acceptance of the female body with its signature cycles and turning points. Some midlife boomers are finding ways to celebrate the menopause, while a generation of "grrrls" is coming of age, with a new view of the menstrual period as an emblem of primal female power. At the same time, some of the sacred tenets of evolutionary psychology--that men are innately more aggressive, more promiscuous and more likely to fall for cute young things--have come under fresh challenge. As the century turns, it could be, Goodbye, women's lib; hello, female liberation...
...fair though, I think you guys have really great traditions. I'm sorry I missed the Primal Scream--I walk around like that every day. Of course, the best one is that John Harvard statue thing. MONICA MAYHEM-Andrew K. Mandel; GUNSLINGERS-Meredith B. Osborn; BOW WOW-Jennifer M. Siegel & Dudley...
Feel like enjoying a primal afternoon with the "Kalahari Kingdom?" Spend a few hours at the Franklin Park Zoo. You can trek through the Bongo Congo, converse with a snow leopard or try out the zoo's new addition: Its Outback trail which hosts kangaroos, wallabies and emus. Franklin Park Zoo, 1 Franklin Park Rd. 541-LION. Open daily...
...elderly man tells his grandchildren a primal tale of abduction and escape. It could be a Steven Spielberg film, and is: Spielberg served as executive producer of this expertly assembled memoir of the Holocaust years. Five Hungarian Jews, including California Congressman Tom Lantos (the grandfather), recount their near death adventures with passion and great storytelling skill. A woman recalls thinking that the Nazis had robbed her of family, money, dignity--"but they're not gonna take my soul." That collective soul lives on here...