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...Backstage, Bullock happily recollected her award season's greatest moments, including kissing Streep ("No one has ever taken the bull by the horns before, but I did"), and hit another everywoman bull's-eye with her post-Oscar plans. There was no need for champagne or parties after her wild ride. "I just want a burger," she said. "I want to eat and not sweat it and not worry that the dress will bust open. That's all I can give you. And I'd like...
Tell me about her. Ellen Gleeson is like a lot of my heroines. She is very ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. I picture her as everywoman and a lot like me. If anyone were to ask me, "What is your defining characteristic?" it's that I'm a mom. And in my case, and her case too, [it's that we're] single moms. So even though she works outside the home, her child is the most important thing in her life and the day she adopts him she feels that her life has become complete...
...live as their true selves, unconstrained by inequitable societal demands. As First Lady, it appears as though Mrs. Obama will exhibit all of the aforementioned dualities, at once. She need not seesaw between being a stateswoman and a mother, habitué of the haute monde and a J. Crewian everywoman. She is not all of those women, she is simply one woman, with many facets.In a 2004 speech, then-Senator Obama declared that we must, “eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.” Similarly, we must stamp...
...Oblivious to her $16K in debt, he hires her to write for Successful Savings magazine right after she's been laid off from a gardening magazine that's being shuttered (the movie's first and only nod to reality in the world of media). He likes her sort of Everywoman approach to consumerism and forgives her complete ignorance of actual finances...
...lost both houses of Congress. And as much as Palin pleases the conservative base of the party, white women were the real target audience McCain was aiming at with his surprise pick of the Alaska governor. The campaign hopes female voters will relate to her thoroughly modern and complicated everywoman story, even if they don't agree with her on the issues. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...