Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must somehow re-educate the average woman into believing that childbirth is satisfying, hard work, not a terrifying and painful experience...
...Swope Parkway two women on the way to pick up their husbands at the Armco Steel plant took refuge on top of their car. But it overturned after being battered by abandoned floating cars and the torrents of water; one woman was rescued by six men who formed a human chain to pull her to safety, but her sister-in-law drowned. The 23 other dead were found, said one reporter, "all over the place...
...hire, and other private security services, are doing brisk business. Complained one official: "I can't drink a beer without security men. I can't go to the toilet without security men. My family life is ruined. And I can't have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running into nowhere with their pistols." After the Schleyer kidnaping, Daimler-Benz received 138 orders for bulletproof Mercedes-Benz limousines...
...Callas, the subject of such ire and much admiration? She was a woman for whom the term prima donna could have been invented. Tempestuous, unpredictable, charming, ruthless, overwhelmingly talented, capable of canceling a performance halfway through (as she did once in Rome) even with a King in the audience. In her long face a kind of gypsy coarseness struggled with and failed to dominate a classic beauty. She could act with her voice and sing with her body, like a great tragedienne. Especially in her later years, that voice could be edgy and even ugly. But that did not matter...
...unable to fit into any organization not tailored to her own personality." By 1965 almost all was forgiven. Bing brought her back for two Toscas. Justly they became the hottest tickets of the season, for Callas' Tosca was revelatory, not so much a posturing, jealous bitch, as a woman unsettled by fear and made crafty by the desire to save her lover...