Word: careerist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brilliant 1993 Arcadia is still going strong in London (and opens on Broadway next week). Like Arcadia, Indian Ink interweaves two time periods and settings, in this case present-day England and 1930 India. Also like its companion piece, the new play is framed as a quest by a careerist academic who is loaded with data but doesn't have a clue. Here it's an American scholar researching the life of consumptive English poet Flora Crewe-in particular, whether Flora posed nude for an artist named Nirad Das while traveling in India for her health some 60 years...
Unfortunately, the portrayal of Cammermeyer the careerist is handled less deftly than the portrayal of Cammermeyer the awakened lover. What Serving in Silence fails to explore sufficiently is the origin of Cammermeyer's fierce drive and commitment to the military even after she is discharged. Cammermeyer, who is still fighting for her reinstatement, disclosed her sexual orien-tation during a top-security-clearance interview required before she could apply to the Army's War College. Close delivers lines like "I want to be a general" and "I'm going to change the regulations, Diane" with little or no emotion...
Some might call this strategy exploitative of ethnicity in an evil, careerist way. But is it any less exploitative of identity and guilt than radical minority politics? Certainly it doesn't necessarily conflict with a sincere dedication to advancing minority interests. If you can empower your community and yourself at the same time, more power...
There's no guise -- fighting feminist or yuppie careerist, prudish housewife | or pouty adolescent, barroom slut or abused bride -- that Bridget won't assume to win this game. Her quick changes are funny. So is her chilly single- mindedness. And so is the eagerness of males, stupefied by lust, to be taken in by her. Fiorentino is ferociously good in the role. If first-time screenwriter Steve Barancik conceived it as a parody of have-it-all feminism, this actress doesn't acknowledge it. She's after the humor of humorlessness, the nuttiness of self-interest untrammeled by sentiment...
...TIME writer Claudia Wallis. Yet under the sheer hype, she discovered a bitter truth that transcended sexual specifics. "Women are finding that they cannot have it all," concluded Wallis. "They are staggering under the burden of trying to be all things to all people -- the nurturing parent, the successful ) careerist, the sexual athlete. Today they are asking men to play all these roles...