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...Pogrebin, a feminist writer and a founding editor of Ms. magazine, the parental example of an egalitarian marriage is a step toward doing away with sex stereotypes, which "bang people together with a cultural sledgehammer." What is an egalitarian marriage? One in which, for starters, both spouses can correctly answer the following questions...
...Hollywood-features sense, but they are appealingly natural. I particularly enjoyed Maggie Renzi's acerbic New Hampshire school-teacher, whose remarks on the acting talent of a former college roommate are both hilarious and revealing, and Maggie Cousineau-Arndt's medical student, an earth-mother with poetically smoldering sensuality. (Ms. Cousineau-Arndt is a family therapist in Boston...
...their own version of news. Chinese newspapers, in the confessional mood of the new era, speak of "lies and distortions" in the past and admit that they "still often carry false, boastful and untrue reports." South Korea's newly installed army dictator, Chun Doo Hwan, has ordered Ms press to proclaim that the U.S. fully supports his rule, despite repeated State Department protests that the U.S. objects to his suppression of opposition. South Koreans aren't told that. The technology may be there, but there are a lot of dark corners in the global village...
Harrison, to be fair, is not without inadequacies of her own. She write often for magazines like Ms., Viva and Ladies' Home Journal, and either her editors or her own sense of her audience mar some of the pieces in Off Center. The McCall's article on the Moonies, for instance, opens with a paragraph as purple and swollen as a bad bruise. Sometimes Harrison's inspired chat turns to chaff--she goes completely gaga over Dick Cavett in a profile piece that is all flutter and giggles, just like the show. Occasionally we get the feeling that...
Smith: The next question is from the chair of Ms. Walters and is directed toward the chair of Mr. Carter...