Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...considerably. The blond, blue-eyed ideal is out, diversity is in, and the concept of beauty is growing as wide as the world. The new cast of faces is appearing not only in ads aimed at specific ethnic groups but in mainstream advertising as well. Revlon's Most Unforgettable Woman of 1989, chosen in a search across the U.S., is Mary Xinh Nguyen, a 20-year-old Vietnamese American from California. Such companies as Du Pont, Citibank and Delta Air Lines have populated current ads with a rich variety of blacks, Asians and Hispanics...
During her three years in office, Gro Brundtland has succeeded in creating the most feminine, not to say feminist, state anywhere in the world. After a decade in power, the more conspicuous Mrs. Thatcher has named not a single woman to her Cabinets. In Norway it is scarcely newsworthy anymore that every other member of the Cabinet is a woman, and more than a third of the parliament. Brundtland even toys with the idea of changing the country's system of hereditary monarchy to allow princesses as well as princes to inherit the throne. And in the privacy...
...tough in 1981," recalls Brundtland of her first brief eight- month stint as Prime Minister, when it seemed sometimes that the entire country was waiting for her to fail. "In the worst times I always thought, If you get through this, it will be much better for the next woman." As it turned out, she was the next woman, and by 1986, when she returned to power, her gender was no longer much of an issue. The collapse of oil prices had left Norway high and dry and deep in debt: Brundtland dazzled both friends and foes with a perilous...
...Brundtland Report, a document so blunt and sobering that it abruptly forced the issue of global responsibility onto the international agenda. Since then she has shuttled around the world, addressing conferences, accepting prizes, chastising polluters, cheering reformers and establishing her potential to become one day the first woman ever to serve as U.N. Secretary-General...
...President is already trying to cope with a sour national mood that is turning bitter amid steadily worsening shortages of meat, sugar, butter, salt, matches, soap and even warm winter clothing. Now tea, a beverage the Soviets consume in vast quantities, has suddenly disappeared from store shelves. Said a woman standing in line for lemons in Moscow: "They talk about the years of stagnation ((Gorbachev's term for the Brezhnev era)), but at least while we stagnated...