Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like last year's Blue Velvet, House of Games deals with a supposedly normal character who gets pulled into an undertow of evil and finds, to her surprise, that she enjoys living out the part of herself she's always repressed. Lindsay Crouse is Dr. Margaret Ford, a committed workaholic who is unable to enjoy the success of her first book, entitled Driven: Obsession and Compulsion in Everyday Life. She is as obsessive and lost as the people she treats. Sucking ferociously on cigarette after cigarette, she is the picture of neurosis...
Ignore this considerable defect, and you can take solemn pleasure in Director Martin Ritt's familiar craftsmanship. You can enjoy the strong performance by Richard Dreyfuss (as Claudia's public and private defender). You may even smile at Streisand's straining to create another movie metaphor for her own fettered Hollywood eminence. Claudia, like Yentl before her, is a smart, sexy woman whose place of respect the boys in power want to deny. Streisand, who has both power and respect, might be advised to use that leverage on a project less conventional and complacent than this very mixed Nuts...
...goes to the mat on every issue, he is going to have more problems," Spencer says. Congressman Richard Cheney of Wyoming warns against any grandiose attempt to recapture the past glory of Reaganism. Says he: "In the old age of an Administration, you should lie back and enjoy...
...long and publicly before stepping down as Secretary of Transportation last month to help her husband, Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, in his bid for the presidency. Her quandary struck a resonant chord in men and women across the nation who increasingly confront the same dilemma: when both spouses enjoy satisfying careers, which one takes precedence...
...Soviets had a taste of the outside world during the era of detente, it was meager fare compared with the highly seasoned feast the Chinese have come to enjoy. Sidewalk bookstalls in provincial Sichuan now offer readers the autobiography of Archcapitalist Lee Iacocca, selected writings of Sigmund Freud, Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue and lavishly illustrated handbooks on how to apply eye makeup. Former students of English gather at twilight by the banks of Chengdu's Jinjiang river to practice their fractured grammar. The flashing sign above the dance floor at Guangzhou's luxury Baiyun Hotel actually reads WELCOME...