Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those adjectives triggered angry reaction when the news reached Chicago, where 250,000 Jews live. Jews charged in an avalanche of mail that he was selling out Israel. Letters in Chicago newspapers protested that Percy was asking Israel to "commit national suicide" and complained that the man responsible "for the murders at Munich and Ma'alot" cannot be termed "a moderate." Asked another letter: "Can Percy and others be bought by petrodollars?" Jewish leaders demanded that Percy return to Chicago and explain himself...
Mabel's inability to defend herself against the people who wanted to commit her has a lot to do with women's traditional role. Mabel couldn't defend herself because she wasn't sure she had all that much to defend. As she says of her children. "The only thing I ever did in my life that was anything at all was to make you guys." Given the classic female yardstick of achievement she was absolutely right. It's no wonder that her first response to the news of her impending committal was "Tell me what you want...
...perfectly right in sensing that "he somehow thinks that Nick and Mabel really love each other and that A Woman Under the Influence is a tragic love story." Perhaps the crux of the movie is the scene where Mabel's husband, Nick, yields to outside pressures and agrees to commit her to a mental institution. Mabel tries to defend herself: "I always understood you and you always understood me--till death do us part, Nick...
...that the individual must sublimate his or her impulses which threaten that order. Mabel crossed that line by being too open or, as Cassavetes put it: "She had an idea that put her in an institution." As for the way they dealt with each other, society told Nick to commit her, so he committed her. Their problem was not a universal problem of love, as Cassavetes claims, but of love within advanced civilization...
...Carmichael's tall talk with virtually no skepticism. He soon learned the dangers of reporting unconfirmed technical claims without any disclaimers. Last month the Dale bubble burst when the Dallas police issued a warrant for the arrest of Carmichael and her creative crew on charges of conspiracy to commit theft. They also filed charges accusing her of engaging in illegal deceptive trade practices. The National Observer reported these events in a sort of retraction in its Feb. 15 issue. The story conceded that Carmichael's car might "turn out to be only a dream," and one Washington-based...