Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves, unveiled, to work or on their social rounds. In Tunisia, where in 1947 polygamy was accepted practice, a husband landed in jail last April for having defied the law and taken a second wife. In Egypt and Lebanon, Turkey and Syria-where for centuries the life of a woman was described proverbially as "from the womb of her mother to the house of her father, from there to the house of her husband, from there to the tomb"-women shop veilless in the markets, dance in nightclubs, train as nurses, drive cars unescorted, even vote. In the last...
Black Skirts, Pink Toenails. Today, at 27, Princess Aisha is a deep-breasted, wide-hipped, volatile young woman who can look one moment as serene and majestic as Nefertiti, and the next as disorganized and disheveled as a college girl at exam time. Her villa regularly swarms with visiting girls and women; when Aisha entertains, its marble walls ring with female giggles and pop tunes (some Aisha favorites: Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong) like a U.S. girls' dormitory. Aisha has abandoned the slacks and blue jeans which once raised orthodox eyebrows in pre-independence Morocco, but still favors slim...
...modern nation out of Morocco. Paradoxically, Aisha has old-fashioned ideas about marriage. She says: "I will marry the man His Majesty chooses for me. I have complete confidence in him. Love will come after marriage." An unusual statement for a leading feminist, but then Aisha is no ordinary woman: she is a royal princess and, in the last analysis, no more free to choose her own mate than Britain's Princess Margaret...
...sadistic tone is set. In another story Mrs. Perrington, a heavy woman with an asthmatic nose, falls dead of a heart attack. "You can tell she's dead because her nose has stopped bleeding...
...Fauve-pointilist Matisse, shown with a Marquet similar in conception, exhibits the genius which would evolve to produce such a work as Reading Woman Against Black Background. Parallel to this, a particularly handsome analytical-cubist Braque foreshadows a flowering of the personality later to paint the small but outstanding Black Fish...