Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women have floated in still ponds, been massaged by rushing waters, prayed at the base of phallic trees, and danced in grassy fields with the wind in their (long, blond) hair . . ."). Yet each artist represented reveals an intensely personal style that escapes stereotyping. These people are comfortable with their womanhood and can fill their art with what Virginia Woolf called "that curious sexual quality which comes only when sex is unconscious of itself...
...look old. You have lost your Bunny image," the International Bunny Mother told Patti Colombo, an eleven-year veteran cottontail at the New York Playboy Club. Another aging Bunny, Carmelita Atwell, was told: "You no longer look like the girl next door. You're going into womanhood." With those curt bits of Playboy philosophy, the Misses Colombo and Atwell and two other hutchmates, all over 28, found themselves out in the street...
Onstage, with her long arms and legs embracing the cello, her straw-colored hair falling over her shoulders, and her pink-cheeked English face radiating health and happiness, she looked a bit like Alice in Wonderland grown to womanhood. That was one reason why Jacqueline du Pré emerged as the darling of worldwide concert audiences while still in her early 20s. Another was the graceful and eloquently soulful way she played her cumbersome instrument. Her tone had an auburn glow, her phrasing a masculine power, and her programming showed an equal devotion to old favorites (the Schumann and Saint...
Eleanor Perry's script does not have the funk to be exciting or enough true spirit to transcend the wind-blown banalities of the plot. Most bothersome is the conception of Catherine as a selfish, useless whiner who is brought to her senses and full womanhood through the ministrations of Grobart. Even if Cat Dancing is meant to be only a kind of soap-oater fantasy, it is an especially demeaning...
...personality to fit into his mold of ideal femininity. To wheedle money out of him, (she lacks, of course, an income of her own) she performs a child's trick of jumping up and down squealing like a partridge distraught. It is a disturbing picture--a woman denied her womanhood cannot grow up. So she resorts to the tactics of the little girl who flatters her father when she craves...