Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People don't understand why so many women find themselves in this desperate plight," says Cynthia Marano, 31, director of the Baltimore center and coordinator of the alliance's newly formed successor, the Displaced Homemakers Network. She blames the whole spectrum of social change-ever-rising divorce rates, unemployment, inflation, longer life spans, stubborn sexism and ageism. One important new factor, she adds, is the no-fault divorce laws that have been adopted by 47 states. "They are basically beneficial to younger women, but leave older women without bargaining leverage and without enough to live on." All these...
...solution is to encourage women to train for jobs traditionally held by men. In Waukesha County, Wis., the Women's Development Center takes women into the County Technical Institute's welding, electronics, and machine-tool shops and introduces them to women already working in such areas. Says Director Ruth Fossedal: "Money talks. The minute they find out they can earn more in those jobs they are interested...
...dollars and rising prices, audiences often made similar choices. Thought was out. Thrills and chills and, most of all, sheer fun were in. Films that did well were ones that packed an old-fashioned entertainment wallop. "There was a big desire for mindless excitement this year," says Gene Stavis, director of Manhattan's American Cinemathèque. "Whether it's laughter or screams, anything that gets the adrenaline going gets people into the theater. We are in an era when people are looking for a jolt...
...Italian Director Lina Wertmuller's first English-language picture went by a title so long that some moviegoers could not finish lip reading it: The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain. It also suffered from an insurmountable problem: for the first time American audiences could understand what Wertmuller was saying. Warner Bros., which had plans to finance two other Wertmuller pictures, quietly changed its mind and gave her a map of Rome. One of the few movies able to quell the mind-numbing trend was Paul Mazursky's marvelous...
...Mouse. A Gallic mystery in which the detective falls in love with the main suspect. Director Claude Lelouch demonstrates his customary flair for textures (of meals, French countryside, character) in one of the year's few adult entertainments...