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09.16.2004
Ridiculous ‘Rayna’
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Someone needs to inject the lead character of ‘Chasing Rayna’ with a dose of intelligence By Leigh E. Rich Chasing Rayna By Sylvia Nobel Nite Owl Books $13.95. I too am chasing Rayna—into the arms of Gloria Steinem, who just might be able to slap some feminism into the sophomoric prosecutor at the center of […]

09.11.2003
No food for thought
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Dubbed fast-food fiction, ‘Tales of the Conspiracy Café’ gets stuck in the throat By Leigh E. Rich Tales of the Conspiracy Café: Barcelona By Lee Shainen The Patrice Press $9.95 Misogyny, thy name is Shainen. Ah, there are so many ways one could critique what local author Lee Shainen has dubbed “fast-food fiction” with his […]

06.12.2002
The thinking that binds
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The more things change, the more they stay the same By Leigh E. Rich The more things change, the more they stay the same. I don’t mean to climb on my tattered feminist soapbox—$48 Victoria’s Secret bra in one hand, Zippo lighter in the other—but several recent news items, from the downright intolerable to the […]

03.20.2002
Ignorance is Bush
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Just zip it up By Leigh E. Rich Just say no. No, no, no, no, no. Thanks, Baby Bush, I’ll try to remember that on my next date as I interrogate the boy, unfortunate enough to have asked me to dinner, on which private religious school he wants to send our future 2.3 Christian children […]

02.20.2002
Hate
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… à la Dorothy Parker By Leigh E. Rich Hate. À la Mrs. Dorothy Parker. Certainly, it goes without saying, no one—man or woman—could craft such lovely hate poems as the irascible Parker. For those who know only of her rabidly biting sayings (“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses”) and equally feral […]

03.12.2000
Biography of mother waxes romantic
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Jean Young an inspiration despite understated style By Leigh E. Rich   Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me By Andrea Young Tarcher/Putnam Books February 2000 272 pages $19.95 Martha Gellhorn, most commonly known as “Ernest Hemingway’s third wife” though most notably known as an award-winning novelist and wartime journalist in her own right, loathed the […]

01.07.1999
Hair’s looking at you, kid
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Veteran TV journalist Lesley Stahl is one tough cookie By Leigh E. Rich Reporting Live By Lesley Stahl Simon & Schuster $25.00 Veteran TV journalist Lesley Stahl is one tough cookie. She’s had to be. Joining the CBS News team as a Washington-based reporter in 1972, Stahl has covered every presidential administration from Nixon to […]

03.26.1998
Late bloomer
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Desmond Morris’s reductive work on human sexuality is about a hundred years past its prime By Leigh E. Rich The Human Sexes: A Natural History of Man and Woman By Desmond Morris St. Martin’s Press $25.00 Sure, Rome was built in a day, and every facet of human nature can be explained in a 250-page […]

12.04.1997
Sound the alarm
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Can’t pin down these pin-ups By Leigh E. Rich Imagine our surprise when the latest pin-up calendar appeared in the office. We were shocked and a bit confused, hovering above the images, unsure what to make of all those women. All 12 months and not one cleavage shot. It’s mind-boggling. We’d like to think the Women Firefighters 1998 Calendar ushers […]