Word: slayer
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...come a long way, baby. Flick on the TV, and see women--young women, almost always--kicking and thinking and winking at both the old notion of femininity and the aging precepts of feminism. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in her fifth season on the WB) saves her classmates from Evil, when she's not cracking a book or a joke. The Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, "the most elite kindergarten crime-fighting force ever assembled," protect Townsville with their magical powers. Max, the bionic babe on Fox's Dark Angel, occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world...
...come a long way, baby. Flick on the TV, and see women - young women, almost always - kicking and thinking and winking at both the old notion of femininity and the aging precepts of feminism. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in her fifth season on the WB) saves her classmates from Evil, when she's not cracking a book or a joke. The Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, "the most elite kindergarten crime-fighting force ever assembled," protect Townsville with their magical powers. Max, the bionic babe on Fox's "Dark Angel," occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world...
...tried various tests, including opening our car windows, playing each tune at a volume more closely associated with Slayer tunes, count how many looks you get and grading the looks between 1. Irritated, 2. Ambivalent and 3. Intrigued. In the end we decided on "Stella," which worked out well, as it received only two irritated or ambivalent looks and a promising five intrigued expressions (though this could have been due to band member Brook "Helmet-Head" Boardman changing clothes in the back seat). It was a bold move to start with the slower number, but one that will help contribute...
While dating his cheerleading love interest, the ubiquitous Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Alan (Grenier) embraces a hedonistic Harvard lifestyle and starts a torrid affair with his philosophy professor...
Heaney's Beowulf (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 219 pages; $25) has now been published in the U.S., giving American readers the chance to take the measure of this Harry Potter slayer, the deadest white European male in the politically incorrect literary canon. Judging by the electronic-sales ratings updated constantly by Amazon.com Beowulf is becoming boffo on this side of the Atlantic as well...