Word: womanizers
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Just two women serve in the U.S. Senate and 23 in the House. Does that mean voters are more at ease with the idea of a woman on the local school board than in the Oval Office? According to a report released by the National Women's Political Caucus, that electoral gender gap, while still prevalent, is beginning to break down. In a survey of 1,502 voters conducted for the caucus by Democratic and Republican pollsters, 57% said they believed that a female President could be as good as or better than a male...
...sounding the doom cry. Ben J. Wattenberg, a demographic analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, warns that the U.S. and other Western nations are not producing babies fast enough. Since 1957, writes Wattenberg in his new book The Birth Dearth (Pharos Books; $16.95), the average American woman's fertility rate has dropped from 3.77 children to 1.8 -- below the 2.1 size needed to maintain the present population level. Meanwhile, he argues, Communist-bloc nations are producing at a rate of 2.3 children per mother, while the Third World rate is rising so fast that within 50 years...
Wattleton, along with syndicated Columnist Ellen Goodman and legions of other modern women, also objects to Wattenberg's tendency, as Goodman puts it, "to slip easily back into a traditional vernacular -- woman as exclusive child raiser." Schearer links this objection to the fundamental criticism of Wattenberg's espousal of Government birth incentives for the sake of international dominance. "There is something distasteful," he says, "about the concept that we should subvert personal aspirations in the democracy of America to the cause of maintaining our world-power status in the 21st century...
...playing a poor black child ((clip from The Jerk)). Or for the holy rage he summoned as he renounced Kathleen Turner with a ferocious "Into the mud, scum queen!" ((clip from The Man with Two Brains)). And who can forget his transsexual transcendence as a man inhabited by a woman ((All of Me)), or his searing indictment of painful dentistry ((Little Shop of Horrors)), or the role that was commonly judged his best performance of 1987, as the eloquent romantic with a canary on his nose ((Roxanne))? It may be that each of these turns deserved an Oscar -- indeed, that...
...believes that Cambridge politics centers on class. He maintains that the CCA has been buoyed by wealthy Cambridge liberals who have no contact with Cambridge's blue-collar ethnic base. He notes that he recently ran across one elderly woman who told him straight-faced that Harvard ran the CCA. "She really thought President Bok was making the decisions for them," he says. And Cyr says that impression reflects the estrangement of Cambridge blue collar ethnics from the CCA. As a result, Cyr shunned requests asking him to seek the CCA endorsement...