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BOOK Crossing the Border By Kim Chernin oxford University Press $22.00, 328pp...
...tremendously absorbing new book, Crossing the Border, Kim Chernin unfolds the story of a fearless and impetuous young woman who leaves behind her husband and daughter in California and adventures to a border kibbutz in Israel on a dangerous journey for escape and fulfillment. This wild young woman is none other than Chernin herself. The author claims that the harrowing events to 1971 transformed her so completely, that, in the book, Kim Chernin must call herself "dhe." Straddling the border between autobiography and fiction is not Chernin's only manipulation of her intriguing title in this rich and multi-layered...
...Chernin has been writing books on women for well over a decade., A psychoanalytic consultant in Berkeley, Calif., Chernin is most well-known for her trilogy of works on body image and eating disorders. She has also received high praise for her memoir, In My Mother's House, recounting the conflict and confrontation in the relationship with her mother. But in her new work, Chernin delves into the past not only to achieve a new understanding of herself through the narrative .She acts as both a critical story-teller and a passive character. Writing 20 years later she says," "Memory...
Diller's fans -- of whom there are many, at least on the record -- attribute his success also to his business acumen and showman's instincts. "He is the least cynical man I know," says Peter Chernin, now head of Fox's film division. "He has antennae for the kind of cynicism that says, 'We don't like this, but the idiots out there will.' " Says Michael Ovitz, head of the Creative Artists Agency: "In this business there are good analytical, practical and creative minds, but very few who combine all three. Barry can read a balance sheet, read a script...
THIS DESTRUCTIVE TREND has been documented in a variety of feminist books, from Kim Chernin's The Obsession: Overcoming the Tyranny of Slenderness in the 1970s to Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth...