Word: typecast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never put a label on myself. I'm not typecast as an active supporter of women because my portfolio is on a different scope, but I've worked as much as I could, more in a quiet diplomacy style because I've been in inner circles in the institutions I've been working with, and I've had the oporunity to tweak the system at the right time, to get the point across...
Wilson: I've never put a label onmyself. I'm not typecast as an active supporter ofwomen because my portfolio is on a differentscope, but I've worked as much as I could more ina quiet diplomacy style because I've been in innercircles in the institutions I've been working withand I've had the opportunity to tweak the systemat the right time, to get the point across. Ifound that to be a very effective strategy...
...most famous women in the world cannot make a life for herself in the capital, it is not surprising that others have a hard time. Says Berman: "You are typecast as unimportant, and you have maybe 30 seconds in any encounter to overcome that." Berman says she gave up her job as acting director of the California Museum of Science and Industry to move to Washington after her husband was elected in 1982. "At an orientation for congressional spouses, there was a lecture on how to live with a celebrity. I wanted to stand up and say, 'Wait a minute...
...appeared in the editorial. First, we never sponsored the Wellesley College Blind Date Banquet. Second, the production of A Chorus Line, which was attacked as an "unnecessary networking of a particular minority," provided much needed opportunities for Asian Americans who seldom get the chance to act. Asians are usually typecast and, thus, never get parts in traditional plays. The production finally allowed them to express their dramatic and musical talents...
...Paulina Porizkova. Correction: make that mission "impossible." The problem is not that Selleck and Porizkova cannot act, although that probability remains high. The real problem with Her Alibi, which stars the two together for the first time, lies in the fact that both actors have been so exhaustively typecast that any screenplay written for the both of them would be an exercise in deja...