Word: girlhood
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...Pipher points out that girls enter junior high school faced with daunting magazine and movie images of glossy, thin, perfect women. She argues that pop culture is saturated with sex; violence against women is rampant; and drugs and alcohol are far more accessible than they were during her 1950s girlhood in a small Nebraska town. "I don't think the past was idyllic," says Pipher, 48, a mother of two whose husband, Jim, is also a psychologist. "But children felt safer...
...KEDS When was the last time salesmanship seemed touching? Aimed at young women, this TV ad tastefully evokes a nostalgia for girlhood while successfully repositioning Keds as acceptable grownup footwear. As women of all ages frolic in slow motion, a narrator asks, "What size Keds were you wearing when they stopped delivering milk? When your mother was the prettiest woman on earth? ... What size Keds will you be wearing when a woman walks on Mars...
...deserves to. For director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) and writer Robin Swicord have fashioned an entrancing film from this distinctly unfashionable classic. They do not so much dramatize the passage of the four March sisters from girlhood to womanhood as let it unfold. Over the years the sisters must cope with a father's absence (when he's not off fighting in America's Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older...
...March sisters navigate the passage from girlhood to womanhood with grace, spirit and infinite appeal in Gillian Armstrong's passionate realization of the 19th century children's classic. Winona Ryder leads an entrancing cast in a family film that interrupts our pious pratings about "family values" to say something truthful and unsentimental on the subject...
...deserves to. For director Gillian Armstrong and writer Robin Swicord have fashioned an entrancing film from this distinctly unfashionable classic. They do not so much dramatize the passage of the four March sisters from girlhood to womanhood as let it unfold. Over the years the sisters must cope with a father's absence (when he's not off fighting the Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older man (Gabriel Byrne); Meg (Trini...