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Wertmuller is, of course, attempting to stage another attack on the male macho principle in this, her newest film The audience gets several tedious verbal and visual lectures on the beauty of female sexuality. Large sculptures of ancient fertility deities serve as a backdrop as Oscar's wife discusses the oppression of women through the ages. Most of the male characters are portrayed with the same comic flatness that marked and marred Steven Speilberg's The Color Purple. Men fight ridiculous fights, and say ridiculous things in bed, while they garner physical pleasures from Wertmuller's beautiful bisexual females...
...election is important not only because the victor will become Portugal's first civilian President in 60 years. In a country where there have been 16 governments in the past twelve years, the President has become an influential center of political continuity. The election is taking place against a backdrop of serious economic troubles. One of the poorest nations in Western Europe, Portugal is currently struggling with a 20% inflation rate and an unemployment level of about 11%. Moreover, its economy faces great er challenges in the competitive atmosphere of the European Community, which Portugal entered last month...
That debate will be of central importance in the upcoming elections, and it will serve as a backdrop for several items which should be in the news as the semester unfolds. The Council plans to pick up several pursuits, including...
...camera crews filmed four scenes with a Harvard backdrop, at Widener Library, Memorial Church, Robinson Hall, and Out of Town News...
Potluck Supper literally takes place in the mind of its lead character, the neurotic host (David Prum) whose anxiety about preparing for a dinner party provides the backdrop of this cosmic comedy of manners. In the first scene, Prum stands center stage with his head inside a miniature version of his living room, nervously shooting the breeze but getting tripped up by his moribund sense of humor. You know the scene: you're standing at the potato dip and the only small-talk subjects that come to mind have to do with dead cats and getting your stomach pumped...