Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAREY takes the role of biographer too literally, sticking almost exclusively to the facts of his subject's life and ignoring the context of the times in which she lived. He carefully avoids the issue of whether Loos encountered any discrimination as a woman, implying that Loos was treated from the start as an equal and that despite her diminutive size, her tough intelligence inspired respect from her male colleagues...
...Loos did submit her first script under the gender neutral name of A. Loos because she had heard that male writers get paid better. And throughout her career, Loos was at the mercy of the whims and prejudices of the producers, almost exclusively male, who ran Hollywood and Broadway...
...cliched attempt at psychoanalysis. As Anita grew into old age and Mr. E. became increasingly mentally ill, Loos began to rely on her paid companion and housekeeper Gladys. Under Gladys' influence, Anita began to become more religious. But Carey slights this spiritual development and instead concludes in an almost condescending manner: "Though she never realized it, her journals brought more peace of mind than any passage in the Daily Word...
They were almost perfect...
...novel is an enveloping glimpse into the soul of a teenaged boy baffled by the effects of death on his mind and world. McElroy's drifting, almost careless stream of consciousness adds credence to his hero's words. The reader is drawn into the boy's mind, and follows his leaps from bemusement to reminiscence to stark realization of death's actuality. What began as an elegy for the father develops into a journal documenting the son's progression into maturity even as the letter progresses into wider and wider circles of society...