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...that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less. Once, just a few decades ago, women were expected to be sex objects while men were, in psychologist Herb Goldberg's phrase, "success objects." The pretty nurse landed the doctor; cute cocktail waitresses were known to snag bankers and lawyers...
...give Virgin 64 of these new-wave entertainment centers in 12 countries. There are plans for 30 more in the U.S. by 1999. Next week Virgin Atlantic Airways, Branson's iconoclastic transatlantic carrier, adds the lucrative Washington-London route to its expanding U.S. service. Virgin Publishing is poised to snag American book readers. In Europe, Branson is starting up a cut-price airline, Virgin Express; he's part of a group taking over the ailing Eurostar train service under the English Channel; he has launched an over-the-phone life-insurance and health-insurance business in Britain called Virgin Direct...
Florence Griffith Joyner, 36, the 100- and 200-m champion in Seoul, hit a snag in her attempt to make the U.S. team in the 400 m. She has an Achilles-tendon injury that may require surgery and sideline her from qualifying meets over the next two weeks. Meanwhile, Mary Slaney, 37, who holds several American records but has not won an Olympic medal, ran a strong race last week in Oregon and appears ready to contend for a spot on the Olympic track-and-field team...
...Table" (haven't they noticed many women are sitting there already?), or designing cards with "Twelve Important Messages for Women" that can "fit in a man's pocket and a woman's purse," in the words of one G.O.P. operative. Democrats too have launched a guerrilla operation to snag women in this election. But mostly the Democrats are smirking because they're pretty sure that whatever women want, or will want in November, it doesn't rhyme with "coal." On both sides, men are rubbing their eyes and seeing Woman once again as inscrutable Other--bred in primordial tidal pools...
This time the festival attracted visitors from Britain, Denmark, Israel, Syria, Australia and China. Even Hollywood showed up: ABC, NBC, TNT, Warner Bros. Television and Carsey-Werner all sent emissaries. Some were looking to snag writers and actors for the mainstream entertainment maw. Others came to join the collegial ferment. Says Janet Blake, a veep at Walt Disney Television: "Where else can you have a lively discussion with Jimmy Breslin"--who presented a savagely witty skit about Newt Gingrich haranguing his first wife in her hospital bed--"and two minutes later be talking to Tony Kushner? Only in Louisville...