Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burst onto the scene three years ago with the help of a lot of money from Kay Graham of The Washington Post, and an editorial staff garnered from New York Magazine. Its first issue's cover girl was Wonder Woman, and she embodied the rising hopes for the new venture. Contrary to the usual pattern of American business, however, a dozen imitation "feminist" magazines have not sprung up in its wake. So Ms. is left being the sole mass-media spokeswoman for the woman's movement--a difficult position, to say the least. As Wonder Woman's face fades...
Dylan, once again, though, can make us shiver in our clothes and wonder why a line of relatively bald poetry can affect us so much...
...wasn't sure she had all that much to defend. As she says of her children. "The only thing I ever did in my life that was anything at all was to make you guys." Given the classic female yardstick of achievement she was absolutely right. It's no wonder that her first response to the news of her impending committal was "Tell me what you want me to be, Nick. I can be anything at all." Despite Cassavetes's denial of political intent, he says: "The Mabel character has a home and a husband that loves her and everything...
...nearly 200 years after it was painted, one cannot help ad miring the symbolizing effort that went into it: no other painting of Fuseli's, or for that matter of the late 18th century, is so full of the sense of trespass on hith erto forbidden territory. No wonder Sigmund Freud kept a framed photograph of The Nightmare on the bookcase in his Vienna study...
...Ross's liability was a firmly shut mind, Shawn's has been one that some times remains too charitably open. The Greening of America, with its pot-scent ed praise of youth (who in turn greeted the book with the immortal tribute "Oh, wow!"), made many readers wonder if the magazine had suffered a touch of sclerosis. The frontispiece, "Talk of the Town," turned suddenly from boutique prattle to sometimes perceptive, some times ponderous essays about Nixon, Watergate, Cambodia, Agnew or poli tics in general. The New Yorker's sol emn discovery of causes was often over...