From Maureen Dowd's New York Times column, March 6, 2005:
But Hillary and Martha—the domestic diva with the new ankle bracelet echoed Judy Garland on her Web site yesterday that "there is no place like home"—are not self-destructive. They are brass-knuckled survivors who elicit both admiration and an enmity that Alessandra Stanley memorably dubbed "blondenfreude."From Maureen Dowd's review of Hillary Clinton's memoir, Living History, The New York Times Book Review, June 29, 2003:
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An Icarus crash can mitigate the jealousy, while intensifying the feminist attachment.
As a successful alpha female in an era when women are doing a lot of retro-cooing and clawing on "The Bachelor," and when rampant "blondenfreude," as The New York Times's Alessandra Stanley calls it, makes it treacherous for brainy, blond, controlling women to fly Icarus-high, Hillary followed a trajectory—from being tormented by Al D'Amato to becoming Al D'Amato—that is compelling.
Taming of the Shrews [NYT]
'Living History': The Real Hillary [NYTBR]















