Word: womanized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shattered as it was, couldn't make good on my will to survive. I was sunk in a coma, unaware of the huge efforts the doctors and nurses were making on my behalf. I was oblivious to the presence of relatives and friends. I didn't realize that the woman I love had flown all the way from New York City to be with me--only to find a speechless wreck. There was no getting through...
...than full-scale plastic surgery and thus more accessible to people of every income and social stratum. "It's not just the young and the beautiful or the wealthy any more," says Jenifer Lloyd, a dermatologist in Boardman, Ohio. "I just lasered the wrinkles on an 85-year-old woman. Now she's dating again." Men, who account for about 20% of all cosmetic work, are succumbing too. Stan Madray, 36, who works for an entertainment company in Orlando, Fla., was unhappy with his "chipmunk cheeks that made me look older and worn." His doctor liposuctioned his cheeks and jowls...
...problem that still carries a stigma. Even in this feminist era, female mustaches and chin hair are not openly discussed or even much written about. "A lot of people feel psychologically scarred by heavy hair," says Dr. Edward Tobinick, director of UCLA's Institute of Laser Medicine. "One woman got up at 2 a.m. to shave before her husband...
Other California teachers have changed genders with little fuss--including a performing-arts teacher at Red Bluff High School, 150 miles northwest of Sacramento, who became a woman. In June the school board seemed to accept Rivers' decision, noting in a letter to parents that "although some board members hold personal values that differ from those of this individual," the job of a tenured teacher with good performance evaluations is protected by antidiscrimination laws. But school policy requires parental waivers before children can take sex education or even watch R-rated films. And board president Scott Rodowick says Rivers...
...would like to defend George W. Hicks (Column, Oct. 1) and his point of view against the onslaught of intellectualism that has been written against him. To begin, Hicks's article was not only about the woman perched in front of J. August. He wrote about begging, panhandling, those that do it--and he used her as an example. We have all seen her, we have been asked for change by her, and most of us, at some point in time, have found the idea of an obese beggar amusing, if not counterintuitive. Maybe she is fat because she eats...