At first I was thinking, 'Cinderella,' 'Working Girl,' women staring at the skyline of Manhattan and making themselves up to be somebody.
That year, her single, "Heaven Help the Working Girl" (an early feminist song) was a Top 20 hit, the last one of her career.
It turned out I wasn't the only one who wanted to look more Bond Girl than "Working Girl."
Mike Nichols's "Working Girl" also owes more to the tradition of the feisty, glamorous woman-in-a-man's-world than to the realities of today's corporate culture.
But after reading "A Working Girl Can't Win," they won't.
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (1956)
The cause of his amusement: two weary "Working Girl" types, former co-workers reunited by a chance encounter on the platform.
Melissa Manchester included the song on her album For The Working Girl, in 1980.
Garrison's first volume of poetry, A Working Girl Can't Win, was published in 1998.
Neither naif nor vamp, she's a woman from a pen of a woman, not some Cinderella of a Working Girl.