Word: stateswoman
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...wave, second wave, lipstick, or stiletto—ostensibly aspire to: that women can live as their true selves, unconstrained by inequitable societal demands. As First Lady, it appears as though Mrs. Obama will exhibit all of the aforementioned dualities, at once. She need not seesaw between being a stateswoman and a mother, habitué of the haute monde and a J. Crewian everywoman. She is not all of those women, she is simply one woman, with many facets.In a 2004 speech, then-Senator Obama declared that we must, “eradicate the slander that says a black youth...
Even at 88, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing refuses to play the role of Britain's elder literary stateswoman. "As you get older, you don't get wiser," she says. "You get irritable." Her latest book, Alfred and Emily (out in the U.S. on August 5), recounts her childhood on a farm in Southern Rhodesia, and examines the profound effects of World War I on her father, a former soldier and amputee, and her mother, a nurse whose true love drowned in the English Channel. On the eve of the book's publication in the U.K., Lessing spoke with TIME...
...Argentina's October 28 presidential election. If so, she will be the first woman ever elected to the Casa Rosada, the Pink House, the Buenos Aires presidential palace. (Isabel Peron, president from 1974 to 1976, succeeded to the office after her husband Juan died.) A veteran lawyer, legislator and stateswoman, as well as political fashion plate, Fernandez is often called The New Evita, after Argentina's most famous First Lady, Eva Peron. In a rare interview, she talked with TIME's Tim Padgett about her role in Argentina's return to the world stage after its disastrous financial crisis...
...they compensate with expressive stage movements that give the play the violent elegance of a bullfight. Even without taking a step, characters’ postures speak volumes: Aeneas (Colin Lane) looks every inch the shell-shocked military man, while Dido (Diane D’Aquila) transforms from self-possessed stateswoman to wounded animal...
...Jersey is not hostile to wealthy candidates. Retiring Senator Frank Lautenberg spent $5 million out of his own pocket in 1982 to beat Millicent Fenwick, the venerable stateswoman often compared to Doonesbury's pipe-smoking Lacey Davenport. Franks says he hopes to raise $10 million, although competing in the most expensive media market in the country will require much more. Franks may find out that the biggest money problem a candidate can have is not having enough...