Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only one on Sweet's album. The song "Wildwood Saloon" describes the travails of a woman of questionable reputation, and two other songs--"Pin a Medal on Mary" and "Stranger in the House," written by the infamous womanizer Mr. Elvis Costello--glorify adultery, which threatens to rend our societal fabric. The mock country-and-western music of these songs only makes them more deceptive, like a wolf in sheep's clothing...
...repeated the role several times on television, and for millions the part will always be hers. But for those seeing the play for the first time, Sandy Duncan will probably seem equally inevitable as the boy who refuses to grow up. Underneath her male costume, Martin was clearly a woman; the difference is not so apparent with Duncan, who is, in fact, closer to James M. Barrie's original conception. Her Peter is androgynous, part boy, part tomboy. As she plays the character, sexual distinctions are irrelevant, an unwanted intrusion by the grownup world. Duncan's performance seems...
...portrayed by Pat Carroll in this one-woman show at Greenwich Village's Circle Repertory, Gertrude is domineering, boastful and vain. But she is also vulnerable and, to those who know her only by reputation, surprisingly funny. Carroll, who commissioned Marty Martin to write a Stein monologue, captures her earthy humor as well as her wit. But at the same time, she conveys the pathos of being fat, female and homosexual in the early part of the 20th century...
This centerfold prose disfigures the novel and makes a few paragraphs indistinguishable from Harold Robbins at the gallop: "When she arrived, the flare of her seductive allure would be in full glow, the meld of her sexuality fired by the challenge of another woman." Fortunately, Kosinski's kinks are a minor portion of Passion Play. The reader who can get past horse-and-lady scenes that bear no relation to International Velvet will be rewarded with passages of great force...
...Woman of Substance, Bradford...