Word: varda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hurricane Agnes are products of the same criminal mind, designed to foster the illusion of woman as Eve, forever volatile and treacherous. The authors therefore suggest the elimination of sexist terms. "Genkind," they think, would provide a great encompassing umbrella under which all humanity could huddle, regardless. Varda One, a radical philologist, asks for the obliteration of such repugnant pronouns as he and she, his and hers. In place she offers ve, vis and ver. "We don't go around addressing persons by their race, height or eye color," says One. "Why should we identify them by sex?" Unfortunately...
...considered to be blatantly sexist. Henry James' "We must grant the artist his subject, his idea ..." sounds as if the artist were always a man. Thus a search is under way for a set of sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed...
...films to her some-what dubious credit. In Europe, the only woman director before 1960 that springs to mind is Leni Riefenstahl, responsible for the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The situation in the last decade seems to have improved-with the emergence of Agnes Varda, Shirley Clarke, Mai Zetterling, Joan Littlewood, and just recently, Barbara Loden-but the numerical improvement is probably illusory. The fact remains that movie production in this country (and any other country, for that matter) is and always has been under the control of males...
Died. Jean Varda, 77, California artist noted for his collages: of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Starting as a portrait painter in Paris, Varda had already switched to collage when he came to the U.S. in 1939. Much of his work was based on the idea that each picture should be remembered for one major color and contain just enough of another to accent the dominant shade...
...open letter to Ms. Varda Murrell: Although the womanifestoes of your movement seem to me to be womental herstrionics, I can bear the threat of seeing womanacles on the male. In spite of your monuwomental attempts at a neoro-womantic revolution, your womanifest destiny, as sure as womenopause, is to be a revolutionary womanque, you and all your sheroes, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, old Uncle Tom Montagu, et al. But I turn purple as a girlsenberry when I see the wo-manner in which you try to womanipulate the Manglish Language for your inhu-woman purposes...