Word: womanize
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...cooks himself a meal - fillet of feline - and feeds a morsel of it to a stray rat. Back on the road, he is set upon by four highwaymen. Out comes his sword, and in an instant, they are decapitated, eviscerated, kaput. Later he sees another gang abusing a woman but doesn't intervene. "Stay on the path," he tells himself. He is the superman as loner, able to survive in a hostile world because he's handy with sword, fist, rifle and ax. And because he's Denzel Washington...
...sexist ranks of German politics, it contradicts itself by using such outdated gender stereotypes as diminutive, frail and kittenish to describe the first female Chancellor of Germany. Though subtle, this sort of language is damaging. One step forward, three steps back. And to think, the writer is a woman...
...professor Nancy Hopkins ’64 walked out of Summers’ speech in disgust, but, to Summers, that should not have come as a surprise—she was just being an emotional woman...
...when she was ready to return to films, her moment had passed. Her enduring glamour, and the tang she put into every line of dialogue, would have made her a welcome presence in sophisticated comedies, but nobody was writing them. Not yet 35, she had become the Older Woman in a town where that label defined an endangered species...
Brooks wrote a fine part for Simmons, now 40, in The Happy Ending. Her Mary Wilson is an unsatisfied woman who leaves her husband of 16 years and finds new interests in Bobby Darin, Lloyd Bridges, alcohol and suicide attempts. It earned her that second Oscar nomination but no good roles in big pictures. Going where the work was, she exiled herself to TV and the stage. She earned an Emmy in the miniseries North and South and played a more worldly-wise Desirée, singing "Send in the Clowns," in the West End edition of Stephen Sondheim...