Word: taunts
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...favorite male chauvinist taunt is that men make not only the best chefs (Carêeme, Escoffier) but the most demanding gourmets too. To kill the latter canard, New York magazine's food maven Gael Greene helped organize a ladies' feast at Manhattan's posh Four Seasons restaurant. One of France's premier chefs (helas, un homme), Paul Bocuse, whose Lyons restaurant bears his name as well as the Guide Michelin's esteemed three stars, flew over the day before the banquet burdened with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass...
...appalled at the insensitive approach Psychiatrist Richard Green uses to "change" the feminine characteristics of the young boys in his program as reported in "Girlish Boys" [Nov. 26]. It seems that schoolmates who "taunt" and parents who "reject" are the ones who require therapy...
Paul is a nine-year-old pariah. Schoolmates taunt him, and even his own family has begun to reject him. His offense: he insists on dressing up in his mother's clothes and playing dolls with his sister rather than joining his brother in outdoor games. His lot is not a happy one, but it is common enough among the patients at a unique psychiatric clinic at U.C.L.A., the Gender Identity Research Treatment Program...
...boys have picked up the girls at a bar on Saturday night and almost made out with them. As the play begins, the time is Sunday; the place, a hot, deserted stretch of beach. The girls seem carnally avid but they affect coyness. They tease and taunt the boys in a long first scene that is electric with erotic tension and yet often savagely funny...
...life hung on every point. She is also the arm and brain of women's ten nis, the rebel who broke some of the sport's prissy traditions and made the revolution work. Like it or not, King personifies the professional female athlete that Riggs loves to taunt...