Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reviewing Naomi Wolf's latest treatise, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood (Random House; 286 pages; $24), a number of critics have complained that the feminist author writes as a pop-culture illiterate. This is not entirely so, for surely no one else has ever found so much significance in the work of Tony Orlando and Dawn. Early in her book about the ways in which American society still fails to indoctrinate girls into a sexually confident adulthood, Wolf uses the singing group's Knock Three Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor...
...would be of some comfort to learn that Wolf, 35, grew up far away from any decent record stores, but alas, that is not the case. The author of The Beauty Myth and Fire with Fire came of age in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, smack in the middle of the feminist and sexual revolutions. She draws on her experiences there, as well as those of her childhood friends, to make the drawn-out point that female longing is dangerously suppressed in our allegedly liberated culture...
...brags about its quirky campaign for Altoids ("The curiously strong peppermints"), a 200-year-old brand of British breath mints. Burnett says the ads have brought Altoids from nowhere to a 10% share of the $235 million U.S. market for breath mints in just three years. Says Linda Wolf, Burnett's group president for North America: "When it comes to being edgy and offbeat and getting our point across, we do it well...
When he decided to escape the muggy Memphis heat with a quick plunge into the Wolf River, singer Jeff Buckley had every reason to feel buoyed by good fortune. At 30 he was signed to Columbia Records--the home of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis--and had just settled into a cozy old house in town to begin recording a follow-up to Grace, his powerful 1994 debut. That album, a darkly romantic and stunningly original blend of folk, blues and alternative rock, had earned Buckley a reputation as a superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park...
CONVICTED. MARKUS WOLF, 74, elusive East German spymaster, known to cold war operatives as the "man without a face"; of kidnapping, and given a two-year suspended sentence; in Dusseldorf...