Word: freida
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voters have been called creaky (retired folks with time on their hands) and conservative (preferring a no-risk, pbs-style format). They are also frequently accused of cronyism. The co-producer of one of the new nominees, Maya Lin, is Freida Lee Mock, the committee's chairwoman. Though Mock stepped off the panel this year, critic Roger Ebert sees the nomination as "logrolling. It's something you expect in pie-baking contests at the county fair." Many past nominated films have been made by committee members or have been distributed by Direct Cinema, a company run by committee sachem Mitchell...
...Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies, an organization dedicated to the research and preservation of Maine culture, hosts a project focusing on women's lives in the tiny community of South Berwick, Maine. One of these women is Freida Hunter-owner, manager and driving force behind one of South Berwick's central gathering places, Flynn's News. The atmosphere and the attraction of the place came largely from Freida herself. Besides bearing the financial burden for supporting her family, Freida was fuelled by a genuine concern for her regular customers at Flynn's, both young and old. Her dedication...
...offensive characters did detract from the show's overall funny tone. John Blackstone's Freida B. Youanme played on every stupid and disturbing stereotype of feminism, from gratuitous references to bra-burning to his very long underarm hair, which Tomarken brushes at one point. This is not Blackstone's fault--he gives a very strong performance--but rather a problem with the character as it is written. This is the kind of character that gives the Pudding its bad name. (Although I must admit that I was at least as upset by the audience's happy acceptance of every enraging...