Word: bitched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dita tells it, her life has had its grim moments, but mostly it was fun. Her job at ITT "got better and better-it was beautiful until those sons of bitches pulled this one on me." She was apparently referring to Columnist Anderson and his legman Brit Hume. "I started raising hell when I was born, and I ain't quit yet," she said. Her father Robert Davis was serving in Germany as an Army colonel when she was born at Fort Riley, Kans., in 1918. Her parents at one point had three birth certificates prepared with different names...
...eats her mate, and I designate at the bottom of your program the grand finale of all soap operas: the mother of America's Cinderella." It is a mark of the wondrous sea change of public attitudes that in a scant three decades Wylie's castrating bitch has become, in much popular mythology if not in fact, part of the wretched of the earth...
...PRAYING MANTIS. After sexual congress, the female of this particular species devours the male. Dramatically, such a woman is a Venus's-flytrap, a castrating bitch who almost invariably renders the man sexually or psychically impotent. It is regarded as her demonic purpose...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Little Murders are two flawed but worthy American films. The first evokes a time when a man could win on style alone--the American Dream at its most basic. A tin-horn gambler and a golden-haired whore play out a laconic male, smart-bitch female romance in the 1890's Northwest. The portrayal is vivid, the material trite. Little Murders is a child's garden of negations. It plays on TV family stereotypes until their insular evils are revealed--and set in the context of a stupidly monied America. It's a rare, original...
...Pinter redoubles his attacks on our expectations. People don't answer when spoken to, or if they do, they respond by talking about a totally different subject. Max begins a sentence with, "your mother was a lovely woman" and ends by denouncing that same lovely woman as a "slut-bitch". And throughout, Pinter maintains a delicate balance of humor and menace. In the midst of a conversation filled with small-talk, Lenny suddenly describes to Ruth his brutal beating of a woman the day before: "Well, she was standing up against this wall, see? No, actually she was sliding down...