Word: wonderwoman
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...featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been added to the new edition of the thesaurus, right after "biased, twisted, jaundiced." Women are no longer listed as a sub-category of mankind but of humankind. And among the exemplars of "excellence," "superman" has been joined by "wonderwoman...
...gross theatrical energy of the silver-gilt devotional statues. Perhaps the most striking of these is a bust of St. Irene protecting Naples from lightning. The city is held up by a cherub, and the saint holds out her right palm: a gilt thunderbolt is stuck in it. Wonderwoman does it again. The Neapolitans liked their religion brassy and extravagant, and they still...
...Freshman wonderwoman Darlene Beckford, who holds school records in the half-mile, mile and two-mile events, will set the pace in the 1500-meter and mile runs...
...women fit their parts, least of all Sweeney, who is not at all the forceful, bravura wonderwoman Aristophanes had in mind for Lysistrata. She seems intent upon getting through her lines as quickly as possible with a minimum of enthusiasm or voice inflection, and in this respect she succeeds. Despite her best efforts, Christopher's speech and actions as Kalonike more closely resemble those of Long Island than of classical Greece while Boghossian's Myrrhine, who has a crucial scene with husband Kinesias (Joe Smith), is far more coy and less brazenly seductive than Aristophanes intended. About the only female...
Confident that it would not detract from her wonderwoman image, Raquel Welch prepared for her most ambitious role-as Myra Breckinridge, the man who changed his sex to turn temptress, in 20th Century-Fox's version of Gore Vidal's novel. At the announcement press conference, Producer Robert Fryer (The Boston Strangler, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) said that to the best of his knowledge only Miss Welch and eight transvestites had tested for the role. "It's a great step forward in my career," said Raquel. "But what will Laugh-In say?" Nothing uncomplimentary...
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