Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have often heard the argument that a Muslim country as such cannot have or work democracy," Bhutto said. "But I stand before you, a Muslim woman, the elected Prime Minister of a hundred million Muslims, a living refutation of such arguments and notions...
...novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling affair with an older woman, he succeeds in learning some humbling lessons. Of course that means turning west, to face life at home. Like his hero, Schwartz avails himself of no shortcuts. Innocent of slickness or lit-crit smarts, his novel has authority and a refreshing flinty charm...
...more hostile than ever. Opponents view the scooters as an intrusive and dangerous presence on waterways. They point to the gruesome accidents and deaths that have resulted from hotdogging skiers who use swimmers as a slalom course. In Hawaii a six-year-old skier collided with a woman kayaker; the woman died. In Arizona a baby girl sitting at the shoreline was washed along the rocks when a skier sent his wake crashing her way; she required 130 stitches. On Easter Sunday at Miami's Hobie Cat Beach, a nine- year-old boy was caught in the path...
...cooks. Or at least that was once the conventional view. No longer. Now, whether in their own restaurants or as employees, women across the U.S. have earned their toques as chefs: the leaders of kitchen staffs, not merely cooks who work at their own stations. To suggest a woman as chef even ten years ago would have prompted laughter. Women, went the old calumny, are not creative enough to be chefs. And anyway, how could they lift those hot 60-qt. stockpots? "Very carefully," says Joan Woodhull, 20, a recent graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park...
...themselves the full title of chef. To be sure, female cooks in restaurants have a long and honored history. They were the keepers of the flame who always produced traditional dishes without deviation, both in American mom-and-pop eateries and especially in France, where the cuisine de femme (woman's cooking) was celebrated by Escoffier...