Playbill

July, 1989

As you know, women have come a long way, er, baby. Many of them are powerful. Some even buy us dinner. In addition to their own cigarette, they now have careers and Filofaxes. They also have husbands, babies, babies with diaper rash, housework, mortgages and other exhausting reminders of their own mortality. Doing it all, it turns out, exacts its price. A new generation of females has been watching and is responding with some survival plans of its own. One such scheme resurrects an old standard:...