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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flat generalization. And for once children are portrayed without any of the usual cuteness: Tina's two girls are devoid of any charm. They are brats pure and simple. Benjamin is slimy and nervous, like a persnickety housewife himself: everything must be just so-the salad, the furniture, the damson plum preserves. Snodgrass' real housewife is suitably hassled and frustrated by the mad world around her, but she meets it head-on: this is no sob story of a woman lost in an overbearing situation not of her own making. Perhaps her madness consists only of her willingness to fight...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Diary of a Mad Housewife gone, but will be back next month | 1/13/1971 | See Source »

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