Word: woman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find great hope in that a woman can make a difference," said Janice Shaw Crouse, a speechwriter for former President George Bush and symposium participant...
Instead, Rivers took several students aside to explain her transition from man to woman, according to parents who objected that their religious and moral standards had been violated. In all, four parents filed formal complaints, assisted by the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based firm that often represents Christian conservatives. Passions were further inflamed when Rivers gave an interview to the student newspaper, discussing her childhood belief that she would grow up to be a woman, her three failed marriages and recovery from alcoholism, her psychiatric and hormone therapy and her fear of rejection by students. "I'm not some...
...also couldn't see much. Which was good, because my mom wore a backless dress. Every other bride wears bows and bustles and basically a 3-to-1 ratio of fabric-to-woman, but my mom was bent on destroying my theory that this was one of those nursing home-companion marriages. I realized after seeing all that exposed flesh that there was no way Pamela Anderson's kids would grow...
...Sunday morning in 1995, the front page of my local newspaper carried the story of an 86-year-old African-American woman. She had spent her life taking care of ill family members and working as a laundress, and had decided to give away $150,000 of her life savings. OSEOLA MCCARTY wanted to give someone else an opportunity she had never had. I became the first recipient of the Oseola McCarty Scholarship at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her act was not a quest for fame. The gift was genuine good old-fashioned kindness that perfectly reflected the kind...
...movie manages this smoothly enough--both actors are excellent--but there's something conventionally gimmicky about the way it plays its reality/unreality game--of a lazy piece with its failure to do anything interesting with the woman in the story, Helena Bonham Carter's neurotically gnarly representation of feminism's failures to create a more sympathetic female...