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  :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Working Girl (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
That's how Tess McGill feels in the opening scenes of "Working Girl." She is intelligent and aggressive, and she has a lot of good ideas about how to make money in the big leagues of high finance.
That's the setup for "Working Girl," the new Mike Nichols film, which is one of those entertainments where you laugh a lot along the way, and then you end up on the edge of your seat at the end.
"Working Girl" is Nichols returning to the top of his form, and Griffith finding hers.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19881221/REVIEWS/812210302/1023   (823 words)

  
  Working Girl Natural History - Find Articles
Within a few years, however, Rosa's life, although still governed by the tradition that young indigenous girls are expected to work and help their families, veered from its expected path.
In the Ecuadorean Andes, I have watched a four-year-old girl weed the garden with a baby sibling strapped to her back and I have held my breath as a two-year-old boy carried a knife across the room to his father.
Girls between nine and eleven were called "gifts who gather flowers" because they collected flowers and plants for dyeing yarn and also picked edible herbs and plants.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_3_110/ai_73064228   (799 words)

  
 Who We Are: Careers
Working with Girl Scouts—an organization with a solid history and a growing future—means working to your full potential in a dynamic and diverse environment.
Girl Scout national headquarters are located in New York City, with additional locations in New York, New Jersey, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Imagine joining a group of individuals—each with their own unique skills and passions, but united by a common purpose.
Girl Scouts of the USA has more than 300 councils across the country that provide direct services to girls and the volunteers who support them.
www.girlscouts.org /who_we_are/careers   (150 words)

  
 "Working Girl"
White Collar Work: If a family could afford to keep a daughter in school through the eighth grade and if she spoke good English, the path would be opened to a position as a sales clerk, teacher, secretary.
Overall, upward of 90 percent of all wage-earning women worked in jobs where women workers were heavily concentrated, and where, therefore, the values of the family claim tended to be reinforced.
Employers routinely paid men more than women, even when they were hired to do the same work, because of the nearly universal belief that men were the natural leaders in family as in political life and that they needed more income to care for their dependents.
www.columbia.edu /~rr91/3567_lectures/working_girl.htm   (2890 words)

  
 Harrison Ford: Working Girl - Movie
WORKING GIRL chronicles Tess McGill's (played by Melanie Griffith) struggle against a working world dominated by men and education.
WORKING GIRL suffers from the fact that it does not seem to know what genre it is producing.
Working Girl is in the same class as 'Ben-Hur', 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Who Shot Liberty Valence', 'The Guns of Naverrone', 'Dances With Wolves', 'Ladyhawke', 'The Great Race', 'Excalibur', and 'The Pink Panther' series.
www.superiorpics.com /harrison_ford/movie/1988_working_girl.html   (1808 words)

  
 Working Girl (1988): Reviews
Working Girl is the sparkling success that it is because of the sheer irresistibility of Melanie Griffith.
The laughs in Working Girl are the laughs of near-recognition - just good enough to make us wish they were much better.
Working Girl is a fun movie in many ways - don't get me wrong.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/workinggirl   (607 words)

  
 Working "Girl" | Progressive U
And I'm sure you've met those people, every thing is to blame on their gender, or their race, or their religion; but never, ever, could they possibly be just plain underqualified for the job.
Though I'm not a working woman yet, I too sometimes feel that there isn't discrimination against the female gender at the workplace (or anywhere else for that manner).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License, except where otherwise noted.
www.progressiveu.org /190000-working-girl   (908 words)

  
 Working Girl - Moviefone
Working Girl (1988) All, Titles, - TV Episodes, My Movies, Names, Companies, Keywords, Characters, Quotes, Bios, Plots.
Working Girl Movie -The 80s Rewind « Working Girl -The 1988 rom-com movie featuring Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith at the award winning 80s Movies Rewind.
Working Girl is an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture and an Academy Award winner...
movies.aol.com /movie/working-girl/5637/main   (183 words)

  
 Working Girl Wines
Working Girl White is a sassy, no-nonsense blend of Chardonnay and Riesling, while Go Girl Red is a wonderfully lush little number with the power to turn a gunnysack into velvet.
Working Girl wines are made by women, for women and are destined to become the “Official Wines of Working Women” everywhere.
Proceeds from the Working Girl series support the Gynocare Fund, a local women’s clinic that is part of Family Planning of Clallam County, donating two percent of monthly profits from sales of all Working Girl wines, plus $1.00 for every Working Girl branded item sold in the winery gift shop.
www.northwest-wine.com /Working-Girl-Wines.html   (1305 words)

  
 'Working Girl' (R)
"Working Girl" is a delectable reworking of the ultimate girl's myth, a corporate Cinderella story with shades of a self-made Pygmalion.
Girls in glass slippers want car phones, briefcases, seats on the stock exchange.
"Working Girl" has a heady '40s atmosphere, lusciously photographed by Michael Ballhaus.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/workinggirlrkempley_a0c9d9.htm   (752 words)

  
 Working Girl
Working Girl is a relevant film that takes a realistic, but screwball look at life in the corporate world.
A big haired girl with a heart of gold, goes up against her ice princess of a boss, and takes on corporate big wigs, in what turns out to be - a romantic comedy!
She earned a Supporting Actress nod for Working Girl, and a competed with Melanie Griffith for Best Actress for her role in Gorilla's in the Mist.
www.angelfire.com /film/robbed/workinggirl.htm   (693 words)

  
 "Working Girl"
But farm wives earned money by selling butter and eggs; poor city women took in boarders and did piece work for the garment industry; fl women did laundry in their homes.
Overall, upward of 90 percent of all wage-earning women worked in jobs where women workers were heavily concentrated, and where, therefore, the values of the family claim tended to be reimposed.
Stepping Out - Coney Island: Most young women went to work to help their families survive in a world in which the family wage was more ideal than reality, but the world of wage labor proved liberating in small, but important ways.
www.columbia.edu /~rr91/3082_lectures/working_girl.htm   (2761 words)

  
 Diary of A Working Girl
Finally, Your Working Girl has entered into that stage of her life where she doesn't really feel like she has a parent-based "home" anymore, due to the fact that both parents live in separate places (and countries altogether).
Your Working Girl is currently trucking her way through the U.S. over the holidays, accompanying her mother on a journey of self-discovery (for mother, that is).
So, not being one to be pushed around, Your Working Girl contacted the editor-in-chief of Adbusters, who has subsequently sent me a bunch of contributor's copies and a free year's subscription.
workinggirl.blogspot.com   (1782 words)

  
 Working Girl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Working Girl is an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture and an Academy Award winner for Best Song ("Let the River Run" by Carly Simon), which tells the story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill, working in the mergers and acquisitions department of a Wall Street investment bank.
Tess soon discovers, however, that Katharine is planning to pitch one of Tess' ideas and claim it as her own.
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson confirmed that she would play the role of Tess McGill on a remake of "Working Girl" entitled "Blonde Ambition".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Working_Girl   (567 words)

  
 Working Girl Movie -The 80s Rewind «
Don't forget that Working Girl is now available to order on Widescreen DVD using our special 80s search device...
Working Girl was born, when the screenwriter and the producer were walking round a packed Manhattan street.
Working Girl and all movie images are ©1988 20th Century Fox.
www.fast-rewind.com /workinggirl.htm   (1428 words)

  
 Working Girl
Things go well at first, until she finds out that her boss is simply trying to steal her ideas and take credit for them.
She gets her big chance when the boss is hurt skiing, and she decides to steal back her own idea by pretending to be an executive from her own firm, and making the deal work herself.
It isn't like people were going to abandon their promising careers and lavish lifestyles in marketing to come work for me in a small new department which had to prove its credibility.
www.scoopy.com /workinggirl.htm   (1256 words)

  
 mixedupbeauty.net » Working Girl
Most people are really understanding, but today, this lady at one of the companies we work with got rather uppity with me–in an email, which comes across as pretty harsh–so my boss is still trying to figure out what’s up with her.
I had to work almost an hour longer today than I normally do because my boss asked me to do a bunch of stuff at the end of the day.
I’m not sure if the pattern is going to work with the yarn I chose, though, because the yarn is pretty dark, so I’m going to do a couple more repeats and then decide if I want to frog or not.
mixedupbeauty.net /category/working-girl   (2366 words)

  
 working girl by petite anglaise
That by blogging about work at all (however rarely I actually did this, and regardless of the fact that I did so under the cloak of anonymity) I was being disloyal to my employer and putting the reputation of the firm at risk.
If you choose to communicate in English, which generally gives you the advantage, obviously you must be prepared for FF to claim to have misunderstood you when she misses the deadline/f***s up.
Note that although FF has chosen to work in a British environment and said in her interview that she welcomed the opportunity to improve her English, it was all lies.
www.petiteanglaise.com /archives/category/working-girl   (8995 words)

  
 PrideSource: Working Girl
Tomlin had her own days of working for the man to draw upon when cast in "Nine to Five;" during the 1960s, while looking for work as an actress, she temped in several offices and served a stint as a waitress at the Howard Johnson's in Times Square.
And when I do work I mostly want to underscore the fact that humans are worth saving, worth being something glorious and noble.
Violet was working as an aide to a senator, Doralee had gotten a job in one of the salons, and Judy married some big powerful guy.
www.pridesource.com /article.shtml?article=18270   (1310 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Working Girl: DVD: Harrison Ford,Sigourney Weaver,Melanie Griffith,Alec Baldwin,Joan Cusack,Philip ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hardly taken seriously by male bosses, things aren't really any better for her once she starts working for a female exec (Sigourney Weaver, never more delightful), a narcissist with a boy-toy banker (Harrison Ford) and a tendency to steal the best ideas from her underlings.
When Weaver's character is laid up with a broken leg, Griffith poses as a replacement wheeler-dealer, flirting with Ford and working on a new client who doesn't suspect the deception.
What I love about Mike Nichols' Working Girl, each time that I view the DVD, is that the film reminds me of the Cinderella fairytale re-envisioned as a corporate fable.
www.amazon.com /Working-Girl-Harrison-Ford/dp/B000059HAK   (1522 words)

  
 Working Girl
You have to be able to multi-task, think fast, solve problems in less than a minute, act happy and friendly at all times, and have a TON of patience to deal with it all.
I know people who work professional jobs that take college degrees who say waiting tables was the hardest job they've done in their lives.
To work in a clothing store, or most jobs in general, you need to be outgoing and willing to work with customers.
www.purplepjs.com /workinggirl   (1432 words)

  
 Karen Burns, Working Girl
Now, Working Girl thinks there’s nothing wrong with unconditional love from parents.  And she feels that young people inevitably reach a point where they find out that the world demands hard work and results (this is called “your twenties”). 
Finally, recasting sentences to avoid potential misunderstanding is a time-honored writerly dodge of which Working Girl highly approves.*  If you feel your readers may be confused by an URL with sentence-ending period in hot pursuit, then by all means rearrange your prose.
P.S.  You did not ask, but Working Girl thinks you don’t need to bother capitalizing “website.” We are allowed only so many capital letters in life.  Once they’re all used up, we die.
www.karenburnsworkinggirl.com   (1476 words)

  
 CD Baby: THE SKYLA BURRELL BLUES BAND: Working Girl Blues
The SBBB was a top 25 finalist in the 2004 Blues Idol competition and "Working Girl Blues" was selected by WTMD 93.7 as one of the top 5 blues releases in 2004.
The band is currently in the studio working on their second full length release of all original electric blues due for release in May 2006.
Working Girl Blues is most decidedly going to the top of the stack of the former."
www.cdbaby.com /cd/skyla2   (575 words)

  
 Salon.com Health | Episode 1: Secret books and other tricks of the trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
By Tracy Quan "Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl" is a fictional series about the life and loves of Nancy Chan, a turn-of-the-millennium call girl.
The author is a freelance writer, a working girl and a frequent contributor to Salon.
Tracy Quan is a writer and working girl living in New York.
www.salon.com /health/sex/urge/1999/07/12/nancy1/index.html   (986 words)

  
 Simple Kind Of Life » Working Girl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I was hanging out on the lanai the other night talking to Jim…and the subject of work came up.
I didn’t expect to work from home when I took the job, but the position has morphed into that over the past 2 1/2 years, and I love it.
But when we call Joe’s manager to confirm, we are NOT allowed to give her that info - we want HER to tell us what their employment records show to make sure we have a match.
www.simplekindoflife.com /category/working-girl   (1537 words)

  
 Working Girl Wines Women Owned Winery in Washington State. Working Girl Wines are Made by Women in Support of Women. Go ...
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Through your support Working Girl Wines are hitting shelves across the country...
www.workinggirlwines.com   (557 words)

  
 Karen Burns, Working Girl » Uncategorized
Working Girl is going to Phoenix for the weekend.  Yes, she knows it’s hot there!  But it’s her mom’s birthday.
We are afraid that if we’re not always at work, our employers will figure out they can do without us.
Tomorrow, Monday, April 30th, Working Girl departs Paris and heads for Agay, a teensy village in the south of France.  To stay in a villa by the sea!  Yeah, life is tough.
www.karenburnsworkinggirl.com /?cat=1   (233 words)

  
 Deep Discount DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Joel Fleishman (Rob Morrow) never wanted to leave New York, but the lure of paying off his medical school bills by working in a remote area seems too good to pass up.
On the last day of school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to end.
The restless almost-seniors--an eclectic group of stone-heads, fraternal jocks, and snobby sorority girls--can't wait to haze the incoming freshman, an annual event as harrowing for freshman boys as it is humiliating for girls.
deepdiscountdvd.com /redirect.cfm?...&ref=411interactive&goto=buyPage   (397 words)

  
 Working Girl's Survival Kit
Which is why the savvy working gal would never be caught without this handy kit.
Chock-full of every beauty, grooming and healthcare product a working woman might need in this unpredictable world, the Working Girl's Survival Kit makes the ultimate gift for new jobs, graduations, promotions, birthdays and more!
To survive life's lil' hiccups (static cling, coffee breath, scuffed heels, snagged nylons, headaches, and more) in style, the chic silver train case is filled with 22 working-girl gotta-haves:
wishingfish.com /workinggirl.html   (106 words)

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