Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TAMING OF THE SHREW is not a nice play...
...biggest mistake is Fred's. He falls for Lady Rosemary Radley, a blond and creamy television actress whose aristocratic public manner contrasts drastically with Lady R. the private shrew and slob...
...many smaller than a matchstick. Says Krishtalka: "One rarely finds small specimens preserved so exquisitely." Animals that have been identified include bats, monkeys, iguana-like reptiles, a possum-like marsupial and salamanders. The scientists have yet to label the new species but have linked them to the lizard and shrew families...
...lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond and the lustrous Peregrina pearl that King Philip II of Spain gave Mary Tudor in 1554. Liz and Dick made a couple of good movies together, including Virginia Woolf and The Taming of the Shrew, and some fine glitzy entertainments, like The V.I.P.s, but for the most part their professional collaboration was disastrous, resulting in embarrassments like Hammersmith Is Out and The Sandpiper...
...TOOK THE WOMEN'S movement 20 years to quash the turn-of-the-century stereotype of the suffragette as a humorless shrew. Foolish efforts to raise the status of women by fig-leaFing the media will ressurect this long-dead stereotype. Feminism fought a long battle to be taken seriously; feminists like MacKinnon and Dworkin are only inviting the kind of derision they want to avoid...