Word: bitched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNFORTUNATELY, the Thayers' 42-year-old daughter, Chelsea--a good name for some from that younger, suspect generation--doesn't quite agree with her mother's estimation of Norman. She thinks he is a "son of a bitch." Norman made a lousy, insensitive father. On the threshold of middle age. Chelsea is still peeved at Norman. Norman, for his part, has not many friendly things to say to Chelsea, who has shows up at the Thayer's summer home for Norman's birthday. One can believe that Chelsea would turn up for such an event...
...Coolidge Corner, Lina Wert-mueller's Swept Away makes you wonder if part of the avant-garde hasn't decided it is too cool for feminism. A northern Italian bitch-goddess (Mariangela Melato) teases and insults a poor, swarthy crew member (Giancarlo Giannini) on her husband's yacht, and when the two of them find themselves marooned on an uninhabited island everything turns upside down. Giannini turns his former oppressor into his concubine/serf and, as in Seven Beauties, shows he can do more with his eyes than anyone this side of Marty Feldman. There is a kind of love...
...point, Maya Angelou enjoys the unique experience of meeting Billie Holiday and even singing for Lady Day. Billie invites herself to Angelou's nightclub act and in the middle of the set begins to scream. "Stop that bitch. Stop her, goddamit. Stop that bitch. She sounds just like my goddam Mamma." When Angelou confronts Billie for interrupting her song, she is told that all Black women sing alike--a mold Billie tried to break. But there is no exploration of why the connection between Black women, particularly mothers, would incite such rage in Billie Holiday. Once the anguish is presented...
...know why you think you're such a dirty, dirty bitch...
Reinhart's views and vulgarities do not make him any less appealing to the opposition. Even the poisonous Genevieve concedes, "Carl, if you had always been the mean son of a bitch you've turned into in your old age, I'd probably have stuck by you." Over a simple cheese omelet, Reinhart concludes autobiographically: "Food is I really kinder than people." In the end, I his moral palate has become as discriminating as his taste-buds: he lets others settle their own hash...