Word: tomboys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running shoes. The Arco tots, a pack of three-or four-year-old boys and girls, raced toward the camera. As a little girl in pigtails broke the tape, her look of triumph bespoke a fu ture unimaginable even ten years ago. Once she would have been called a tomboy. Now she is called an athlete...
...wonder that Warren and I went into show business." Shirley recalls that she and her brother were well behaved at home, scamps once they got past the confines of the yard. "We used to empty garbage pails on people's front porches," she says. "I was a tomboy until I realized that getting punched in the boobs didn't feel too good...
...about the mating game. If Pleshette Mary Tyler Moore developed a split personality, her two halves could be spun off as Kate and Allie. Played in wound-up preppie style by Curtin, Allie is the kind of roommate who makes meatloaf while wearing 5 pearls. Kate, a low-key tomboy, tries to unstarch Allie by taking her camping: "Come on, I'll teach you to make a fire by rubbing two credit cards to gether." Both women are ruthlessly verbal and seem actually to have read books. Although there is nothing overtly urban about the show, the clipped backchat...
...Debbie Armstrong, 20, so surprised to be perched on the gold-medal stand that she could scarcely stop laughing. U.S. men and women skiers were able o share this feeling in the same Olympics for the first time, Armstrong winning the women's giant slalom. A delightful former tomboy devoted to all games, whether booting soccer balls or shooting 'hoops," she concluded that skiing was her favorite sport only after a broken leg two years ago kept her from doing...
Sometimes it is hard to take Irene Selznick too seriously-but only sometimes. A Private View is the story of how a bright, spunky tomboy from a beach-front house in Santa Monica surmounted advantages and an insufferable marriage to become independent and a successful Broadway producer. Only a hopeless churl could fail to see that behind the privilege and luxury is a woman of uncommon perseverance and good sense...