Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite scattered allusions to the famed Kennedy woman-chasing, Goodwin avoids turning his story into a kiss-and-tell memoir. Psychoanalyze-and-tell better describes Goodwin's finished product. The most provocative chapter in the book, entitled, "Descent," describes Lyndon Johnson's progressively paranoid behavior following the 1964 election. This chapter has drawn the most attention--and fire--to the book. Former Johnson aide Jack Valenti and former Secretary of State Dean Rusk have both bitterly attacked Goodwin's portrayal of the president. They accuse Goodwin of misunderstanding Johnson's eccentricities and misusing psychiatric terms that he knows little about...
...Martin stands out. Sorel realizes that her family has plunged headlong into the abyss of eccentricity and wants to do something to improve the situation. Martin manages to portray both sides of her character well, shifting easily between the personalities of a pouting child and a semi-sophisticated young woman. She cries and whines a lot, but she gives her character a tragicomic aura that earns the audience's sympathies...
...eyes moved vertically, and their mouths shouted "Woman!" and "How ya doin'?" Brooke's friend Dave, who said he frequents the Sports Bar to all of his old Belmont Hill buddies, explained that most of the women in the bar were not Harvard types. "Pine Manor," he said, pointing to a nearby table in the second room...
...example, there has never been a woman head of the Undergraduate Council, despite the emergence of women as viable candidates for the top office over the past few years...
...most recent council election--just two weeks ago--a woman was one of four declared candidates for council chair, and in a debate before the election she was asked how gender influenced contention for the council's leadership. The woman, Deborah J. Slotnick '90, said that while she should be voted chair on the basis of her qualifications, she was proud to affirm that she was a feminist and would serve as a role model if elected as first woman council chair...