MoDo: Have I Told You About 'Blondenfreude'?
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."
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An Icarus crash can mitigate the jealousy, while intensifying the feminist attachment.
From Maureen Dowd's review of Hillary Clinton's memoir, Living History, The New York Times Book Review, June 29, 2003:
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]
