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...Over half of the [now grown] children I have been studying have psychological problems they attribute to the divorce." In 1995, at her study's doleful quarter-century mark, America seemed to catch up: her findings and sweeping conclusions ("radical changes in family life [are] silently altering the social fabric of the entire society") are now chapter and verse of the marriage-preservation movement...
...Current reform proposals] are symptomatic of dissatisfaction in the social fabric for which we do not have solutions," Cook said. "Thus we believe what we want to believe. Particularly if it is presented to us in an attractive ourselves to be manipulated out of political motives...
...recent Black CAST production of Third and Oak, two women in a laundry room late at night discover much more about each other than their mutual preference for fabric softener sheets...
...true that the vanguard of the anti-abortion movement doesn't consist entirely of violent vigilantes. Then again, most Islamic fundamentalists across the Middle East don't believe in violence--just the assimilation of their views into the political fabric of their nations...
Zhang Yimou is prone to relying on visual gimmicks. Whether it was the wine in "Red Sorghum", the lanterns in "Raise the Red Lantern" or the dyed fabric in "Ju Dou," his cinematic crutch is obvious and sometimes self-defeating--it forces the viewer into visual overload. "To Live" is a happy exception...