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These are only some of the assertions of The Beauty Myth (Morrow; $21.95), a provocative work by San Francisco-born Naomi Wolf, 28, that is being published in the U.S. this spring. Already, and as might be expected, reaction is divided. Fans of the work call it daring and disturbing, but when it appeared in Britain last fall, many critics dipped their pens in acid, variously describing it as lurid and dishonest, and slamming the author as a "clever child." Others have extolled it as a feminist handbook...
Among other things, Wolf, a Yale graduate in literature, contends that today's women have been victimized in unprecedented ways by a "violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement." This victimization produces deep inside women "a dark vein of self-hatred, physical obsession, terror of aging and dread of lost control...
...city has made efforts to improve affirmative action over the years, but there remained clear holes," Mayor Alice K. Wolf said yesterday. "The city government should be a model for all employers in terms of commitment to minorities and females...
...routine. The troops joke around a lot more," says a soldier. "We get T rations, which are hot and a lot better than MREs." MREs, or Meals, Ready to Eat, are the soldiers' most accessible enemy. Everyone hates them. Egyptian soldiers refused them. Only ravenous Iraqi prisoners of war wolf them down -- including the chewing gum. When the milk runs out, there is pineapple drink to pour on the cornflakes...
...wonder, then, that so many students dismiss all talk of racism as P.C. wolf-crying...