Word: dilemmas
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...couch this dilemma wittily, as screenwriter Martin Sherman does, but you can't really evade its darker implications. Director Waris Hussein doesn't try. His style is objective without being cool or repressed in the all-too- common English manner. He avoids playing for big laughs the mostly awful social situations in which his characters find themselves. Even a drunk scene between Plowright and Moreau is low-keyed. It is very agreeable to discover a movie in which everything is not foreshadowed, underlined, commented upon. In other words, The Summer House is disciplined in the way that British theatrical productions...
...writing A Drinking Life, he faced a technical dilemma -- how to repudiate the booze that did so much damage in his life while reproducing what he still considers the happier side of the drinking, the exuberant good times. The solution might have lain in more detachment -- drunkenness recollected in tranquillity. It might have lain in a more censorious attitude toward booze and all its works. But that would have subverted the romance of drinking. Hamill still seems to believe in that, in some backhanded way, though he switched to club soda 20 years ago. He even gives boozing a momentary...
After joining King's study group, Fisher learned that she carried the telltale pattern of markers. The agonizing question: What should she do? Huge numbers of women will eventually face the same dilemma. The inherited form of breast cancer accounts for 5% to 10% of cases, says King, meaning that "there might be half a million women who either already have or will develop the disease because of this gene." Carriers have an 85% chance of getting breast cancer...
Therein lies the dilemma currently posed by the genetic revolution. Do people want to know about genetic defects that can't be corrected yet? Vicki Balogh of Trenton, Michigan, is facing such a moment of truth right now, as she awaits the results of a test that will tell her whether she carries the gene for ataxia. The degenerative disease killed her mother at 52 and has already started to destroy the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord of three of Vicki's brothers. "I'm 35, and that's young enough to make a career change," says...
...always kind to women as they age. A young woman might be discriminated against; an older woman is often seen as irrelevant. Actresses have complained for years that their male counterparts don't run into the same career roadblocks they do once they reach 40, but the dilemma is more serious than whether Meryl Streep is in as much demand as Jack Nicholson. Lauren Hutton and stories about older women and younger men notwithstanding, the woman who can no longer give birth may sometimes feel as used up in modern America as she was in preindustrial times, when bearing children...