Word: hausfrau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Wilber's, and more self-conscious, but she maintains the illusion of the unrivalled actress in her prime in all but the most taxing moments. In the grand renunciation scene, when she announces she will leave the stage--forever, of course--the poised aristocrat turns into a ranting hausfrau, flailing and directing her harangue at the audience. The dislocation is brief but unsettling...
...time to herself, wealthy girlfriends to lavish clothes on her and teach her how to be a lady men to admire her. This topsy-turvey world works an instant transformation on Clara. The haggard lines painted on her face disappear overnight and with them the shabby working-class hausfrau; in her place stands an elegant fashion plate who abandons her peasant taciturnity for sparkling wit and high spirits, reads Anna Karenina and 1 Prontessi Spossi, swoons to romantic violin concerti and discovers that she has no desire ever to return to her coarse proletarian family...
...built around interviews with survivors and former officials of Lebensborn. In the film's most poignant se quence, an aged Polish woman pleads for some sign of affection from her daughter, taken as a girl from her by Himmler's men and now, 32 years later, a hausfrau in Flensburg, West Germany. Next on the screen is a lawyer coolly explaining that the daughter considers herself German and has no desire to remember the past...
...makes the body smell pure. There is no odor to my sweat." After breakfasting on dried and crumbled whole-grain bread kneaded with carrot juice and topped with rice polish, lecithin, yogurt and a tiny ripe banana, Gloria sometimes skips around the house. "I'm a regular hausfrau, but I still need more exercise." Gloria plans to buy a treadmill. To display what her way of life has done for her in 50 years, Gloria obligingly posed for a photographer in exactly the same way she did in 1925 for a classic Steichen portrait and offered a final, somewhat...
...after his retirement. Roger, the husband loves his job, but then he's got all the responsibility. Wife Pat, a talented aggressive careerist who's got the chance to make it big in the women's mag biz, loathes the crystal and china tea service life of a corporation hausfrau. She starts to come down strong on the jaunty Roger for not considering her professional objectives and personal needs in their life...