Word: womanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brandy, a best-selling pop-soul singer and the star of UPN's youthful sitcom Moesha, has just awakened. The diva/actress, who first found fame as a teenager, is now 20, more woman than girl. This is her thespian coming-of-age time, the moment when it happens or it doesn't. An ingenue either aims for Jodie Fosteresque acting glory or is condemned to a Peter Pan-ish purgatory, a high-voiced, short-pants-wearing Urkel-ish hell in which she is damned to re-enact the clumsy tics of adolescence forever...
...wanted to rob a bank so bad ..." One tries to picture Brandy with a firearm. It's difficult. One tries to picture Tipper Gore with an AK-47. That's easier. Brandy keeps going: "I was a happy little girl. Now I'm a woman. I'm just trying to challenge myself. Why can't I play a country girl from Texas who decides to kill...
...that she didn't give it some serious thought. Mawn researched the best financial-real-estate programs, sent away for applications and took a prep course for the Graduate Management Admissions Test. But after seeking advice from senior woman executives in her company, including some with M.B.A.s, she decided to forgo the degree...
...experience. In the late 1980s the average business-school student was 24 years old; now the average age is 29. "For lots of women, this is a time when they're making decisions about family and marriage," says Gray. "People are in committed relationships, and traditionally it's the woman's career that takes the back seat." Gray's didn't, but she did spend her first four months at school on her own, until her husband was able to join her in California in December. Until the research is in to prove that inconveniences like that are what...
...Harvard, the school most often associated with a traditional atmosphere, the disciplining of six male students for offensive behavior toward women last spring inspired a fire storm of criticism of what came to be known as the school's "woman problem." In 1998 only 24% of graduates were women, among the lowest of the top schools. Harvard has taken measures, both before the harassment incident and after it, to work on its climate and reputation. In 1997 the school devoted $1 million in grants and school funds to case studies that feature women business executives. The admissions department has placed...