Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear that sex played no part in the judges' considerations. They sat on the stage of Lisner Auditorium behind screen partitions; the performers were identified for them only by number. Clearly, as Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume said, it took the Goldbergs to separate the women from...
Aspen is assembled by Phyllis Johnson, who once taught at a mission school on a Navajo reservation and later was intimate-apparel editor of Women's Wear Daily. She got the idea for her project while ski-bumming one winter at Aspen; her fellow vacationers, she felt, were ready to enjoy "culture along with play." So in early 1966, she produced her first issue to meet their desires. Today, some 20,000 subscribers receive Aspen at $4 per box, and Mrs. Johnson just about breaks even...
Cocktail Tapings. Now syndicated five half-hours a week in 83 cities, Girl Talk draws an average audience of 2,000,000, ranging from a Hollywood scriptwriter who listens for the flavor of women's dialogue, to, on at least one occasion, Lyndon Johnson. Most of the viewers, though, are women and of an age that leads Virginia to privately retitle her program "The Menopausal Romper Room...
Girl Talk is telecast in most areas during the day but is taped at the cocktail hour "because," says Virginia, "women talk better then. The later the show, the more the barriers are down." And the dudgeons up. Once Actress Natalie Schafer greeted Columnist Sheilah Graham (no kin to Virginia) with: "Oh, I'm so glad to meet you. You were the cause of my divorce." Sheilah was also clawed by Zsa Zsa Gabor, who suggested that the columnist was too old to write about love...
...Braque and Henri Matisse, Van Dongen rebelled against 19th century impressionism, filling his canvases with slashing brush strokes and raucous colors that enraged critics but fascinated gallery goers; and while some of the other Fauves went on to cubism, Van Dongen settled for becoming court painter ("I paint the women slimmer and their jewels fatter") for the international set, turning out glittering portraits of such luminaries as the Aga Khan and King Leopold of Belgium...