Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Udall bill disagree-and strongly. Mining companies want to get at the minerals that may lie under the proposed parklands. J. Allen Overton Jr., of the American Mining Congress, warned last week: "We've got to find and produce 40,000 additional pounds of minerals for every man, woman and child in this country every year. How are we going to do that by locking up a piece of America 2½ times the size of California...
...veneration of grossness and fatness," says Feminist Author Kate Millett (Sexual Politics) of the Amazonian anatomies she has sculpted out of papier-mâché, chicken wire and liquid cement. Kate's nine-foot sculptures, titled Naked Ladies, go on display next week at the Los Angeles Woman's Building. "I don't know where they came from," muses Millett, 42, who has been sculpting for 18 years. "I guess I just wanted to play around." Among the sculptures: a giant woman pushing a shopping cart, a housewife watching the soaps and chatting on the phone...
...characters, however, smolder without burning. Fiona Cleary spends an extended lifetime being a "very unhappy woman" because of the married man she loved and lost in her youth. Daughter Meggie spends her life moping over her love for the devilishly handsome Ralph de Bricassart. One woman who sees him muses: "He's the handsomest chap I've ever seen! An archbishop, no less!" She cannot restrain herself from adding, "What a father you'd have made, Father!" Alas, Ralph is wedded to the Roman Catholic Church. He loves Meggie but he cannot throw away his vows. Meggie...
Charlotte Emory is a passive woman who has always longed to go on a journey unencumbered by family or things or even destination. Rooted to the little town of Clarion, where she was born, Charlotte sees her life "rolling out in front of her like an endless, mildewed rug." What she needs, she declares, is a "wilderness course." It is provided by a deus ex machina, played by a prison escapee, Jake Simms Jr., a self-described "victim of impulse." When Simms holds up a bank, Charlotte becomes a victim of irony-a hostage without the walking shoes...
...Master Charge, no revolving credit, no conspicuous consumption. But one epochal year the Traveler does not come. Instead, a mysterious old woman appears, bearing boxes of medicinal herbs. She speaks an unknown language but her eye is a window on the uncharted territory beyond the mountains. It is a valley inhabited by a hunting-gathering tribe known as "the people" and savage cattle herders called the Chigai...