Word: apprenticeships
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...prove enlightening, for they emphasize the women's struggles to learn and achieve recognition in a craft, as well as the sweet smell of their success; they record the traumas as well as the blessings that haunt the artistic soul. Biographer Frederick Sweet, for instance, describes the decade of apprenticeship which Mary Cassatt had to endure before Degas asked her to exhibit with the Impressionists. Later, Sweet adds how Cassatt's work deteriorated as she grew blind near the end of her life, and then, a bit ungenerously, how "friends from America found her querulous and vindictive." Albert Gelpi...
Dick Richards, here making his first feature, is a former director of television commercials, an apprenticeship that presents several liabilities when it comes to filming anything longer than 60 seconds. The movie has a tendency to be episodic and rather punchy, and the visual style is too pretty. Every time the cowboys saddle up it looks as if they're about to ride up the arroyo for a Pepsi...
Borrowed Tricks. Hackman is a sort of blue-collar actor, slightly embarrassed about art but avid about craft. For his Oscar-winning role as the obsessive, foul-mouthed Popeye Doyle, he served an apprenticeship in Harlem with Eddie Egan, the real-life detective on whose exploits The French Connection was based. "It was scary as hell," Hackman says. "We'd burst into a crowded bar, and Egan would put on a drill instructor's voice, flat and unemotional, and yet authoritative. If anyone talked back, his voice would go a pitch higher. He always won." In the film...
...employed, and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin." This did not just mean equal pay for equal work. "Affirmative action" is to include--"but not be limited to"--such things as promotions, recruiting and "selection for training, including apprenticeship." Some women's groups have claimed that limiting admission of women to colleges and universities constituted discrimination because, they say, graduate and undergraduate study is the academic equivalent of training and apprenticeship. The administration did not construe it that way, but this argument probably paved the way for this year...
...this paradox? Obstetrics and gynecology are considered a surgical specialty, and surgery is the most rigidly disciplined major branch of medicine. It requires more apprenticeship training than most other branches, and many senior man doctors do not want to "waste" the education on a woman who might later practice only part time for family reasons. Cardiovascular Surgeon Nina Braunwald of the University of California at San Diego, one of the few who made it, sees another reason: "Surgery is a closed field, and the male ego would like to keep it so." Because department heads in the surgical specialties would...