Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mafia Hot Line. Detective fiction has it that the .22-cal. pistol with its tiny one-ounce slug is a gnat swatter, at its worst a woman's weapon snatched from a purse to dispatch an errant lover. No self-respecting all-pro killer would carry one. The facts, however, are otherwise. The CIA has long preferred the .22. The agency's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a silencer-equipped Hi-Standard .22-cal. automatic pistol during World War II. It turned out to be the only production-model handgun that can be effectively silenced...
There are dragon ladies breathing fire on the stage of Broadway's Martin Beck Theater. Paul Zindel has conceived of a raw, strident all-woman power struggle for control of a regional theater called the "Alamo" in Texas City, Texas. The bitchy confrontations in his play make the feline spats in Clare Boothe Luce's The Women sound like the popping of ladyfingers...
...chief monster woman, Dede Cooper (Estelle Parsons), is a pioneer zealot of regional theater, and she has nursed the Alamo into its present quarters, a huge Gothic pile. Dede can squash mountains as though they were bugs, but she has a doughty foe in a widowed moneybags named Joanne Remington (Rosemary Murphy), who believes that when money talks, Dede should shut up. Joanne's plan is to install a codirector, Shirley Fuller (Jan Farrand), who will siphon off Dede's authority...
...Scooter") Ryan, Dzundza viscerally endows the prosecuting attorney with the instincts of a fox in a hen coop. Always grave and commanding in presence, Earle Hyman has to wait to the end of the play to deliver the doctor's passion ate plea for the right of a woman to terminate her own pregnancy...
...first issue is 12 pages long, featuring an "exclusive" with Farah Fawcett Majors, but if popular reaction is favorable it will be expanded to 16 with a centerfold, MacIntyre said yesterday. He said the centerfold would feature both a man and a woman to allay charges of discrimination...