Word: doll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounded like a natural. Make a movie adaptation of a classic domestic drama (A Doll's House) by one of the earliest analysts of the modern woman's dilemma (Henrik Ibsen). In the leading role of Nora, cast the most glamorous of Women's Lib heroines (Jane Fonda). Have it directed by Joseph Losey (The Go-Between), a sympathizer with the feminist cause. Shoot it on location in the Christmas-card setting of Røros, Norway, and bring in such supporting players as David Warner (Nora's husband, Torvald), Trevor Howard (Torvald's friend...
...Bayungumay and a few others, an ancient spirit survives. She flees to the mountains, leaving her green-eyed daughter to grow into an exotic and desirable commodity. Sometimes a drawing-room doll, sometimes a field hand...
...Your comparison of Liv Ullmann and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House was apt. Ibsen was one of the enlightened few of the 19th century who realized that women had problems requiring serious consideration from our conventional society. The saga of Liv Ullmann brings a live modern woman to speak her own piece from her own experience...
...headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party was unusually subdued for a victory celebration. The banzais were perfunctory and beer toasts stood untouched. Even the usually ebullient party leader, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, looked less than exuberant as he painted in the missing eye on a huge daruma doll, a traditional rite signifying victory or success...
...deny his innovative efforts, and is wildly paranoic to boot. Concern for society is one thing, witch hunting is another. Besides, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention were performing almost precisely the same things almost four years ago. Zappa's atrocities, as they were called, included dismembering dolls, a particularly juicy interlude where a salami, attached to a guy wire, runs through the audience and smacks a doll in the ass, a replies of a penis that shot whipped cream over the first ten or so rows of the orchestra, and others too humerous to mention...