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Women As Icons
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Heroine Worship
By Holly Brubach
The Girls Next Door
By Jeanine Basinger
The Drama Queens
By Daniel Mendelsohn
Self-Fulfilling Prophets
By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The Princess Brides
By Wendy Wasserstein

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  • Lifetime Television will present a one-hour program based on this project on Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 8 P.M.; Friday, Nov. 29, at 9 A.M. and 11 P.M.; and Saturday, Nov. 30 at 11 A.M. (all times Eastern).


  • As part of @times's feature on this project on America Online, Cynthia Ozick, who contributed an essay on Gertrude Stein to this issue, will participate in an Auditorium on Monday, Nov. 25, at 9 P.M. Eastern time (Keyword: nyt). You may send questions to Ozick in advance by e-mail to CynOzick@aol.com.

  • Gertrude Stein
    By Cynthia Ozick

    The Salonkeeper

    Helen Keller
    By Mary Jo Salter

    The Achiever

    Anna Pavlova
    By Allegra Kent

    The Swan

    Virginia Woolf
    By Claudia Roth Pierpont

    The Voyage In

    Eleanor Roosevelt
    By Charles Kuralt

    Always the First Lady

    Mae West
    By Martha McPhee

    Our Little Chickadee

    Martha Graham
    By Alma Guillermoprieto

    Sacred Monster

    Marian Anderson
    By Jessye Norman

    Grace Under Fire

    Amelia Earhart
    By Camille Paglia

    The Lady Vanishes

    Greta Garbo
    By Isabella Rossellini

    The Sphinx

    Katharine Hepburn
    By Lauren Bacall

    The Unmistakable

    Frida Kahlo
    By Dan Hofstadter

    Victim Status

    Kate Smith
    By Will Friedwald

    The Voice of America

    Dale Evans
    By Elizabeth Gilbert

    Homebody on the Range

    Babe Zaharias
    By Charles McGrath

    Most Valuable Player

    Margaret Thatcher
    By Brenda Maddox

    The True Believer

    Audrey Hepburn
    By Diane Johnson

    The Thoroughbred

    Elizabeth Taylor
    By Anne Hollander

    The Fairest of Them All

    Patsy Cline
    By Roseanne Cash

    Honky-Tonk Angel

    Sophia Loren
    By Marjorie Rosen

    Some Spicy Meatball

    Tina Turner
    By Hilton Als

    Escape Artist

    Martha Stewart
    By Patricia McLaughlin

    Public Enemy No. 1

    Twiggy
    By Susan Cheever

    A Stick Figure

    Naomi Campbell
    By Guy Trebay

    Model of Decorum

    Jenny McCarthy
    By Rachel Abramowitz

    The McCarthy Era

    The Guerrilla Girls
    Photo by Lois Greenfield

    Guerrilla Warfare


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