Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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United Airlines Flight 35 to San Francisco was half an hour late taking off from Newark last Wednesday when a woman passenger kept herself locked in a rest room in spite of entreaties to come out. She finally emerged, said she was ill and returned to her seat. She left a lavatory so spattered with blood (from diarrhea, flight attendants assumed) that it was closed off for the six-hour trip...
...newborn girl, umbilical cord still attached. The 8-lb. 9-oz. infant appeared to be suffering from hypothermia but otherwise seemed healthy. After the mother, Christina LoCasto, 24, of Staten Island, N.Y., turned herself in, authorities charged her with child endangerment. The 5-ft. 7-in., 155-lb. woman had not appeared pregnant to flight attendants, and even her husband says he was unaware of her condition...
...guide the candidates and their families through the convention, sometimes have to do more than organize. On Monday night during former President Jimmy Carter's speech, Kitty Dukakis, worn out from the excitement of the week, started nodding off to sleep. After consulting with other staff people, her advance woman made her way over to the governor's wife and gently poked her in order to ask a strategic question...
...aside from facile parallels that Huffington draws between Picasso's treatment of his current lover and that woman's appearance in his work, there is no effort made to probe the source of Picasso's artistic wellspring. The biographer has taken Andy Warhol's dictum that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes too seriously, and, angered by Picasso's constant fame, she has tried to steal a few precious moments in the spotlight for herself at the artist's expense...
Such an approach to Picasso renders the book simplistic and biased. Huffington bases a large part of the last sections of the book on her interviews with Francoise Gilot, the woman who left Picasso after bearing him two children. And Huffington is so unabashedly admiring of Gilot that the reader wonders if a biography of her wouldn't have been a more appropriate subject for the author...