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Friday is still angry about the hostility she felt she encountered from other women when she wore suede pants at a feminist rally. She's equally put out by women who categorize Hillary Clinton or Barbra Streisand as "ball-breaking." Whether Friday's prescription for women to embrace their own sexuality--and men--would curb this kind of feminine competition is debatable. Furthermore, Friday hurls gossipy anecdotes as arbitrary and vindictive as any told about her suede pants...
...tower in conjunction with a facility like this before. There'll be all sorts of unknowns, and a few inevitable hitches." He might take heart from the notoriously ragged 1993 opening weekend for the Luxor down the street and the early glitches at the MGM Grand that Barbra Streisand enumerated onstage when she headlined there...
...like Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, Garbo and Dietrich were not only paid as much as male stars but cast in strong roles. But then women stars retreated into the domestic comfort of TV, whose agenda they still set. And the guys took over the movies. The major exceptions were Barbra Streisand, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler, stars who became producers and are heroines to today's generation of actress-producers and studio comers...
...these are just the folks who work here. Don't forget that Harvard also attracts stars from around the world who come for just a visit. In February, for example, news of Barbara Streisand's visit to Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government made the front page of the New York Times. And speaking of Kennedys, John F. Kennedy Jr. is a frequent visitor to the school. The fellows at the K-School's (as it is called) Institute of Politics often include famous politicians and luminaries on the rise...
...order to draw a crowd. Is the staid IOP so wary of Jackson's message that they feel it must be tempered by someone like Mansfield? In my opinion, the Kennedy School showed extremely poor form by asking Mansfield to provide a rebuttal. Where was the rebuttal when Barbra Streisand spoke? How about Warren Christopher? Why didn't Harvard feel compelled to offer the arguments of a faculty member in those circumstances? On Monday, the organizers showed extremely poor form and indeed a lack of respect for Jackson; ironically they offered up a totally outclassed Mansfield for public sacrifice...