Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole Roots phenomenon. "Our initial feelings were negative. We felt the other did so well that we should just let it hang up there. Then, very gradually, it began to come together. Someone would ask me about stories I had, so I told them about Sister Carrie or Aunt Liz, and then some more...
However, the profile of the domestic worker as a poor, ill-educated woman is slowly changing, as students, artists, writers and housewives adopt household work as a flexible form of employment. Their families are not always pleased. "My aunt babbles on about my editing and my traveling, but she never mentions my cleaning," says one part-time editor. After quitting a managerial job at Joseph Magnin, Taryn Stenman, 22, worked as a maid for six months and found that she made so many connections as a result of cleaning homes that she started her own catering service. "People...
...Mary Tilford (Patrice Dabrowski), receives a just punishment for a series of rule infractions, she fabricates a tale that the schoolteachers are lesbians, convincing her grandmother (Cynthis Weinrich) to withdraw her and the other girls from the school. The teachers countersuit for slander fails, in part because Martha's aunt (Amy Aquino) refuses to testify in her defense. The mud sticks and destroys the lives of the teachers...
Cornuelle suffers from a tendancy toward repetitious speech rhythms and oddly placed emphasis. Because she is so unconvicing in her original fight with her aunt and with Karen's fiance, her intensity in the climactic confession scene with Karen jolts one into surprised attention. Subtly shifting her volume at key moments, she effectively conveys Martha's inner struggle while dropping most of the distracting gestures and grimaces she has employed elsewhere...
...drives an unprepossessing yellow Volkswagen convertible and often has to take his two kids along when he's on a stakeout-his ex-wife being much preoccupied with her est-like training and her live-in, est-like trainer. The rest of his family consists of an aunt who once waltzed with Bakunin in Russia, and is too busy to be much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior citizens' center and attempting to keep Moses ideologically pure in materialistic America. Harassed by the contradictory demands of profession, middle-class responsibilities, nostalgia...