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...Where were you in 1970?" Gloria Steinem asks in her introduction to The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies. If you were a woman between the ages of 18 and 64 in 1970, you probably were not where the FBI thought you were: that is, snug at home in your kitchen making dinner for your husband and 3.3 children. In the real world, by 1970, 50 per cent of the female population worked full-time outside the home. Forty out of 100 of those women had been divorced at least once. And the majority wanted to have...
BORN. To Alexander Karageorgevitch, 34, Chicago insurance executive and Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, whose late father King Peter II fled his country during World War II; and his wife of eight years, Maria da Gloria, 33, a cousin of Spain's King Juan Carlos and a great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil; their first child; in Chicago. Name: Peter...
There are three central characters: Louise (Roxana Stuart), a genteel widow; Nora (Naomi Riseman), a widow of lower-class origins; and Louise's teen-age daughter Gloria (Melissa Leo). They live in Bethesda, Miss., at the turn of the century. In her widowhood Louise has taken a younger man, Mr. Merriwether (David Williams) as a lover, but he has left for a job in Memphis. She is desolate and yearns for his return. There are hints of Blanche DuBois in her, and white is the dominant color of the play. The set is white except for a square black...
Louise's real-life worry is her daughter, who has reached the dreamy transition from girl to woman. Gloria shows touches of Alma from Summer and Smoke. Her full-length dresses seem like veils, of which the seventh is soon to drop. She goes to the library, attracting boys who would never open a book. "Beware of early fire," warns her mother. Fire is kindled when she meets a "romantically handsome youth" (Arnie Burton), who seems virginal beyond belief. Gloria talks to him of love in a tenderly erotic scene and does a dance of sexual awakening...
...fuel costs. In Chicago, volunteers are knitting mittens and scarves for poor children while the city's Hull House Community Center conducts weatherizing workshops for residents of the surrounding low-income neighborhood. In East Lansing, Mich., a "community tool box" provides tools necessary for home insulation. In Little Rock, Gloria Wilson, a mother of seven and the wife of a mechanic, dreads the first winter gas bill. She does not heat the living room or dining room of her seven-room home. Even so, her heat has been cut off for nonpayment five tunes in the past three years. Each...