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...stories; yet when it does, clients chafe that its ambitions may lead to carelessness with facts. Post Foreign Editor Karen DeYoung said that "it made no difference" that the assertive report came from U.P.I, rather than A.P. Still, quite a few news executives share the judgment of William Greer, associate news editor of the Miami Herald: "U.P.I, has had a reputation for shooting from the hip." Adds Greer: "They have done a good job the past couple of years overcoming that...
...respect to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth," said Voltaire. David Plante has given very little of either to the subjects of this memoir. Among the three "difficult women" in question, only Feminist Germaine Greer emerges from Plante's portrayal with a shred or two of personal dignity. Novelist Jean Rhys, who died in 1979, and Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's widow, who died a year later, have been observed in the distorting half-light of their declining days, when illness and alcoholism had served to dim the mind and obscure the spirit...
From the outset, Germaine Greer's irrepressible liveliness, not to say stridency, cuts through Plante's dispiriting view of women. Her earthiness seems to have tickled his sensibility: "Germaine will clutch the fat at her tummy and shake it and say, 'That's alcohol.' " But there is a touch of malice in his portrait of the au thor of The Female Eunuch. When Greer rummages in her refrigerator for some thing to feed her cats, she exclaims, "Oh, darlings, you're so lucky. Here's testicle." Plante pointedly fails to specify the species...
...harder for women to be feminine after the technological advances. Mills quotes him pleading with women not to "quit the womb." Abbie Hoffman says Mailer "sees feminism as the decline of civilization" but describes how Mailer's own social habits counter his chauvinistic image. But Mills also quotes Germaine Greer, who said Mailer "pushed himself into the feminist debate because it actually made him feel more masculine, more heroic." There are no answers, but the combination lets the reader see Mailer a bit more clearly...
...title is obviously symbolic, but it is also quite literal, the name of the auto-salvage company run by a race driver Al Shaw (Bruno Lawrence, a strong actor who also worked on the script). His wife Jacqui (Anna Jemison) and his daughter Georgie (Greer Robson, a child of uncommon appeal) must attempt to create their small domestic civilization among the rusting reminders of the larger civilization's discontents. When Jacqui cannot get Al to stop tinkering with his cars, she starts tinkering with his best friend. One cannot help sympathizing with her; it is clear that...