Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the departure this year of longtime Councillor Saundra Graham, Wolf becomes the only woman incumbent with a strong stand on women's issues. Most recently, she sponsored an order to put the council on record as pro-choice. Despite Wolf's advocacy of the move and support from Graham and Duehay, it was defeated by the council's conservative bloc...
...Buenos Aires, men with pistols bulging under their open vests flank the doorway. Before anyone is allowed into the building, the guards check via walkie-talkie with the building's most prominent resident: Argentina's new Ambassador-at-Large, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat. She is the country's richest woman, with an estimated net worth of more than $1 billion. "I hate bodyguards," she apologizes, as she escorts a visitor into the elegance of her Louis XVI salon in a duplex apartment on the uppermost floors. "I hired them only after some people tried to kidnap my teenage grandson...
...stars of Monsters, a lively half-hour anthology, which each week delivers just what is advertised: a grotesque and usually malevolent creature, concocted under the supervision of makeup wizard Dick Smith (The Exorcist). Last season's menagerie ranged from an 8-ft.-tall bloodworm with carnivorous tastes to a woman who turned into a gigantic honeybee and flew off with her reluctant lover...
...Monsters' stories are predictable and thin, the show is enlivened by grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after wrecking...
Senior Yvonne Grierson, a member of the varsity women's swimming team, also decided to attend MIT for the academics. She was the Division III national champion in the 100 butterfly and the 100 freestyle during her sophmore and junior years. Another woman athlete, Lisa Arel, was fourth overall in last year's NCAA all-around gymnastics championships...