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Jane is still the proper young Englishwoman abroad, but she and Tarzan are naifs in each other's worlds, with resources of strength and feelings still to discover. And with Minnie Driver adroitly mining each nuance of social primness, Jane is the first Disney cartoon heroine to provide her own comic relief...
...mother half of the human family," in Emmeline Pankhurst's phrase, was fully enfranchised only in this century. In Britain, so proud to claim "the Mother of Parliaments," universal suffrage--including women's--was granted only in the year of her death, 1928. Mrs. Pankhurst was born a Victorian Englishwoman, but she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back...
...blues"--not to mention rhinophyma, the skin disease that in his 50s turned his nose into a purple bulb. He hated to be alone but had no talent for making friends--as distinguished from mistresses. He started a new romance at age 74 with a titled Englishwoman of 49. Women saw past not only the hideous nose but also the peremptory manner that they thought disguised an inner shyness. With some reason: Morgan was ruthless in getting rid of inept partners, but could hardly ever bear to fire them in person...
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Further revelations about Diane Holliday, the Englishwoman who claims to have had Dodi Fayed's love child 15 months ago, have surfaced in Britain. The Sun tabloid has reprinted some of the letters with which Holliday reportedly "bombarded" Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed. "I am not a nutter or a gold digger," she wrote. The paper claims Holliday "began her quest by leaving a letter at the cemetery where Dodi was buried." The head of Al Fayed's security team called her claims about meeting Dodi "garbage." The Sun also reveals that Holliday purportedly attempted to sell her daughter...