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They cannot understand women, cannot communicate with them. Their dates are elaborate games in which bets are placed as to how far the action will go, and which provide grist for a good week of boasting. Even the one member of the group who is married, Shrevie (Daniel Stern), eventually tells a friend that marriage is "all right," but that he honestly can't hold a conversation with his wife for more than five minutes...
Such an occasion took place earlier this week, when Reagan held his fifth news conference since taking office. Because much of the grist of what Reagan said may have been lost amid the nearly incoherent babbling, a few choice questions and responses bear repeating...
...restoring order to chaos. The champions of American mythology--comic book characters--are back in action. Blond-haired, blue-eyed Flash Gordon battles sinister Orientals in outer space. Superman defends Truth, Justice, and the American Way. The public wants the old heroes, the old stories: ancient themes provide the grist for almost all American movies. Whether this does indeed say anything important about America's collective unconscious is an elastic point, and one easily stretched to banality...
...finest French silk, spun by the larvae only the most aristocratic of silkworms, could speak, it would sound like Lauren Bacall. Affixed to a body that, in the '70s and '80s, has become the grist for more than a few older woman fantasies, that voice could fill a theater with a dramatic reading of the Globe classifieds. And that, alas, seems to be the theory behind Woman of the Year...
...topics, to nobody's surprise: sex, loneliness and frustration. Sometimes the mail flow becomes an avalanche: a record 227,000 readers responded when Abby asked in her column last summer whether women over 50 enjoy sex (half were enthusiastic). Over the years the sisters' mail has provided grist for pamphlets and books, including the bestselling Dear Abby and the Ann Landers Encyclopedia...