Word: womanned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test is familiar to almost every woman who has visited a gynecologist. To take a Pap smear, the doctor inserts a metal device that enables him or her to see into the vaginal tract. Then he inserts a swab or spatula, scrapes some cells from the cervix and smears them on a glass slide, which is then sent to a laboratory for microscopic examination. A few days later, the doctor receives a report indicating whether the cells are normal, atypical or malignant. The patient gets a bill for about...
Beyond U.S. borders, others have come to similar conclusions. A medical task force in Canada studied the effects of the annual Pap smear and two years ago reported that the results did not warrant the costs. Their recommendation: at age 18 any woman who has had sex should have her first Pap test. If it is negative, she should wait a year and have a second test. If that too is negative, then she should be screened only once every three years until age 35, then once every five years to age 60. If the test is still negative, there...
...Mary Tyler Moore Show went even further. News Producer Mary Richards was TV's first truly liberated heroine: a capable, ambitious working woman who was perfectly content to turn 40 without having found a husband. When MTM voluntarily ceased production at the end of the 1976-77 season, Moore's admirers quite naturally assumed that their heroine would soon return in yet another rich and adventurous series...
...months have gone by, and no such series has materialized. Instead, Moore has frittered away the time by trying to parlay an indifferent singing voice and nice legs into a career as a song-and-dance woman. Last winter she came up with a special called How to Survive the 70s and Maybe Even Bump into Happiness, a thoroughly distasteful blend of toothless social satire and Vegas vulgarity. This fall Moore unveiled Mary, a regular variety show in CBS's old Sunday-night Ed Sullivan slot. On Mary the star had the aid of some top writers and supporting...
First, You Cry is not, as one might expect, Mary Richards Gets Cancer. Rather than fall back on her considerable resources of charm, Mary plays Rollin as a rather cold and strident woman at first. When tragedy strikes, she gradually works shades of anger, maturity and self-doubt into her characterization. As a result, Moore does not just jerk the audience's tears but gives a sense of how one complex life can be redefined by an encounter with death. She also plays some extraordinary scenes, including one where we see Rollin's face as she examines...