Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pakistani-born accountant, and his American photographer client Anna (Wendy Gazelle); Rosie (Frances Barber), Sammy's wife, a "downwardly mobile" English social worker, and her beau of the evening Danny (Roland Gift), a young black; and Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), Sammy's father, and his old flame Alice (Claire Bloom), a romantic Englishwoman. Is that all clear? No? Don't worry; these lives are not meant to be sorted out. Like real relationships, they are messy, incendiary, lingering past the pleasure point. Kureishi's women can be doctrinaire or maternal or game for a good time; his men, the "unfair...
Okin challenged University of Chicago Philosophy Professor Allan Bloom, who argues in his best-selling book, "The Closing of the American Mind," that "the unjust family is natural...
...world of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaids Tale" [which depicts the subjugation of women in a fundamentalist-governed United States] might well be the logical conclusion of Bloom's world," Okin said...
Okin said that Bloom's attitudes also provide philosophical justification for the gender-separated family, where women must provide the majority of domestic work. Such an arrangement, Okin said, "makes women vulnerable...
...roots investors pulled out," said Sawyer. "I thought it was the investment banks and large firms that panicked." Du Pont smiled uncertainly at the young man and wisely changed the subject. It was a tactic that few candidates were able to emulate during a cataclysmic week that took the bloom off the economic boom...