Original Publication: The New York Times, November 26, 1989 BUSYBODIES By Patrick Anderson. 256 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $18.95. Washington is a tough town for a satirist to…
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Original Publication: New York Woman, November 1989. It feels odd to say this, but evidently a lot of women still don’t get it: Politics really is connected to our daily…
Read moreOriginal Publication: New York Woman – October, 1989 They’re over. The Eighties. I heard their death rattle at the precise moment Chuck Berry hopped onstage in front of the Pooh-bahs…
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Why are the fat cats suddenly spending a fortune to eat like Third World peasants? MAUREEN ORTH reports on how the rich get roughage. And how they won’t stop talking…
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Original Publication: New York Woman – June, 1989. This is a personal question, but how does it feel to be old enough and smart enough to have gotten all the…
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In the late 1960s the swamp queen with a gap between her front teeth was the hottest model in the world. Now, reports MAUREEN ORTH, she’s become the baby-boomers’ pinup. She’s the woman who wasn’t born yesterday and looks better for it.
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