Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Downard burst a tire in a particularly jagged chasm, he jokingly proposed to Mayor Harold Souders that the town sell its potholes to help raise the $70,000 needed to repair last winter's wear and tear. After the suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came in, and then another. With that, the town went into business. For $10 per hole (or $25 for three), a buyer gets a certificate of ownership, a photograph of the hole and an implied promise that it will...
...suddenly as they had begun, the women's marches ended. Three weeks ago, thousands of women spontaneously rose up to protest the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's apparent opinion that women should return to the veil, or chador (a shapeless garment that covers a woman from head to toe). When they shouted, "In the dawn of freedom, there is no freedom," they were supported by many others who feared that the promises of the revolution were not being kept: workers, ethnic and religious minorities, landless peasants, middle-class...
...last week they were meeting to safeguard their stake in the revolution-not in the streets but just about everywhere else: hospitals, oil company offices, government ministries, courts, factories. The theme of each meeting was, as a woman pharmacist put it, "the unfinished revolution for both men and women." The refrain was the emerging pattern of exclusion of women: religious opinions implying that women are too weak to be judges, objections to coeducation, the absence of any women in the new government. "We would prefer to support Islam," said Mrs. Jaleh Shambayati, a lawyer, "if the government supports...
...woman in Iran is to be better off than a woman in most other Middle Eastern countries. But Iran is still a deeply patriarchal society, in which a woman is seen as needing protection and separation from predatory males, her greatest purpose in life to provide her husband with a son. Under Islam, women are equal, in theory. In practice they are not. They are often literally excluded from men's society...
MARRIED. Jill Clayburgh, 34, stage and film actress currently nominated for an Oscar for her role in An Unmarried Woman; and David Rabe, 39, playwright; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...