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Who’s Not Ready for Saturday Night Live?
Cover of Crawdaddy Magazine June 1977 “The Most Dangerous Man on TV: Saturday Nights John Belushi” cover photo Albert Rizzo. Crawdaddy Magazine founded in 1966 just as American counterculture was...
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LGBT Workplace Woes
We’re Not Safe in Kansas Anymore Yes, in Kansas it is now legal to discriminate against LGBT employees. State employees in Kansas can now legally be fired, harassed or denied a job for being gay or...
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The Oscar for the Best Vintage Celebrity Endorsement
And the Oscar for the most celebrity endorsements goes to…Chesterfield Cigarettes. Tobacco companies paid Hollywood Oscar contenders of the 1940’s and 50’s millions of dollars in today’s money to...
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Women, Gender, Politics and Art
Collage Detail from Womens Lib- A Storms Approachin’ collage by Sally Edelstein Nearly 45 years after the women’s liberation movement stormed onto the scene opening a floodgate of discourse about...
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Views From the Edge
I am pleased to be exhibiting my collage A Storms Approachin’ in Views From the Edge: Women,Gender and Politics. If you are in Providence Rhode Island please join us for the opening reception Monday...
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The Real Housewives of The Cold war
Like most women growing up in the 1950s and 1960s I was fed a generous serving of sugar-coated media stereotypes of happy homemakers who were as frozen and neatly packaged as the processed foods they...
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We
“Because the single most powerful word in our democracy is the word We. We the people. We Shall overcome. Yes We can.” President Barack Obama – Selma 50th Anniversary (L) Page from “Our Country...
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How the Mad Men of Madison Avenue Got Rosie the Riveter to Man Up
Advertisers sang Rosies praise, proudly applauding the “resourcefulness and ingenuity of American Women.” Once upon a time, women workers were not only highly sought after they were lavished with...
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A Black Eye for NYPD Blue
NY Daily New headlines tell the story in black and white (Top) An unarmed Sean Bell was shot 50 times by police, 2006, 1999 slaying of unarmed Amadou Diallo in a hail of 41 bullets in the Bronx, 1997...
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Operation June Cleaver
On a recent chilly Sunday women started disappearing from ads, magazine covers, billboards and posters directing readers to Not-There.org. Part of a powerful ad campaign to raise awareness of gender...
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An Age Old Problem: Women and Aging
Limiting and less than flattering portrayal of older women once populated the pop culture landscape. Cougars circa 1974. Playboys “horny granny” cartoon by Robert Brown was a parody of the sexy...
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Don Draper Problem Drinker
While Alcoholics Anonymous tells us “we are only as sick as our secrets” it’s no secret that Mad Men’s Don Draper enjoys a drink every now and again… and again… and again. While actor Jon Hamm has just...
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Women and Aging – You Can Survive
Having just turned 60 I have now entered DEFCON 2 in the war against aging. That is, if we are to believe the media who have been waging their own war against women and aging for years. After decades...
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Passover Tears Again
Like Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, Lipton’s Onion Soup Mix produced no tears. That dehydrated marvel of mid-century cookery was a staple in my Mothers repertoire. Mom joined the legion of...
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Fashion for the 70’s- Past Predictions
Adjust your color TV sets- its bound to be awash in a sea of harvest gold, avocado green, earthy browns and burnt oranges. Mad Men is moving into the 1970s. As Don and the gang enter this new decade,...
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The Maddeningly Mad Men World of Sexual Harassment
As the rumblings of the embryonic women’s movement began to be heard in 1970, some women in the workplace began quietly grumbling too. Even as working women began taking baby steps in their Enna...
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Who Said a Woman Can Be President?
Questioning whether a woman can be President is as dated and ludicrous a notion today, as this vintage 1956 Maidenform ad of a woman on the campaign trail with the tag line “I Dreamed I Went Whistle...
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Fractured Fairy Tales for Earth Day
1954 advertisement Post War Pesticides on Parade Mid century America was the golden age of pesticides and it was love at first sight. Any thoughts about Earth Day and the environment lay far in the...
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Watch Out Apple
The perfect gift for the 99% who don’t want to wait up to 3 months to shell out 17 thousand dollars for an Apple watch. For under 3 bucks, you could be the envy of others “the leader of the gang”...
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Marriage Equality For All
It’s time to allow everyone the opportunity to carry their loved one over the threshold into equality Everybody Should Say I Do! As spring begins, the window opens for the chance to be a June bride,...
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