Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater sexual appetites. In one survey conducted in a Chicago hospital, "fat women outscored their thin sisters by a factor of almost two to one," in terms of excitability. Only our culture's notion that fat is "morally and sexually repulsive" has produced the idea that a fat woman's overeating is a substitute for her sex drive, says Beller. The fact is her cravings for food and fun exist simultaneously. Now that Beller has established that fat is where it's at, all those chubbies on starvation diets can relax and say, with John Dryden...
...women received congratulations from friends and supporters, three more victims of the Irish Republican Army's Provisional unit were being buried: a prison guard who was machine-gunned in his car, a school-bus driver who was shot to death as he stopped on his route, and a woman private in the Ulster Defence Regiment, who was gunned down in her mobile home. The third group of attackers even turned their guns on their victim's terrified three-year-old daughter, sending bullets through the Teddy bear she was holding but leaving her unharmed. Despite objections that...
DIED. Ruth Elder, 73, aviatrix who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic; of emphysema; in San Francisco. After Elder took off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, her plane, The American Girl, splashed down near the Azores, where the pilot and copilot were rescued by a tanker. The failed flight, however, turned into a launch for a lucrative film career...
...feel I owe the American people an explanation of what happened," said the frail, blue-eyed woman. After a decade of obscurity in Texas, Marina Oswald Porter, 36, was in New York City to face a press conference and stir up publicity for Marina and Lee, an account of her life with Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, written by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. "My regret through the years has been immense," said Marina, who now lives on a 17-acre farm outside Dallas with her three children (two by Oswald) and Kenneth Porter, a sewing-machine salesman. Marina, who will share...
...even know why my hands do certain things sometimes," he says. "They just grab for the notes." His dynamic range, from the greatest fortissimo down the line to a pianissimo that comes on little cat feet, is nothing short of phenomenal. "You played like a god!" swooned a woman one night in New York. "Yes," replied Slava with a twinkle and a verbal pinch on the cheek, "but like a god with...