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Word: womanized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theory, displaced homemakers are only temporary victims of change. But an American woman now has a fifty-fifty chance of being divorced, widowed or single by the time she reaches middle age, and as Milo Smith's motto indicates, she is likely to need a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Of Women, Knights and Horses | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...editorialized last week, she would gain "concrete evidence that when it comes to dealing with political opponents, Janata is no better than she." Then she could argue that her stay in the slam mer had purged her of guilt for abuses during her term as India's one-woman ruler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi in the Slammer | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...this woman truckin'? Model-Turned-Actress Deborah Raffin is revving up fo her role in a March 10 CBS movie, Willa. Raffin, 25, plays a waitress who takes up truck driving after her husband abandons her and the kids. To prepare for the role, she put in 50 hours learning how to drive a 16-wheel, 40,000-lb. rig. "It's so powerful you could almost run down a street light and not know it," says Raffin. "I was petrified." But the fright was worth it, Raffin thinks, because the film shows how well women can cope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...audiences could understand what Wertmuller was saying. Warner Bros., which had plans to finance two other Wertmuller pictures, quietly changed its mind and gave her a map of Rome. One of the few movies able to quell the mind-numbing trend was Paul Mazursky's marvelous An Unmarried Woman; it grossed $62.5 million and made Jill Clayburgh a star. Some pictures did well but not very well, or at least not as well as their backers hoped. Chief among those was The Wiz, the black version of The Wizard of Oz. Just about to go into wide release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bottom-Line Time in Hollywood | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...than Abraham Lincoln. The film is supposedly taken from Kay Summersby's kiss-and-tell book about her wartime romance with the general, but there will be no kiss and very little tell in ABC'S version. "I've got to think about a very lovely woman who is the widow of the ex-President," McCutchen explains. "We'll leave it to the people who watch the show to make up their own minds as to whether there was a romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Flood of Film Biography | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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