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YEAR OF THE WOMAN, as the first movie made almost entirely about women by women, merits some small attention. It might have merited more if it had not been written and directed by Poet-Novelist Sandra Hochman (Walking Papers), who has used the women's movement as a sort of rostrum for some extravagantly banal personal fantasies. Much of Year of the Woman was shot, in documentary style, at the Democratic Convention in Miami last year. The coverage of the women's caucus, which is fleeting, has some hard intensity. There are also some moments of humor, such...
...Hochman inserts herself into every scene, interviewing, berating or proselytizing for the female takeover of the world. It is a revolution to which she gives rather capricious support. She is more interested in her own earth-bound reveries, and includes far too many of them. A long climactic scene in an observatory supposedly located on the moon has Hochman chortling with an uncomfortable Art Buchwald about women's domination. She was apparently not too serious about any of this; unfortunately, she is not very funny, either. Her narration does not help. Hochman may be a poet, but her writing...
...years on former Party Theoretician Jaromir Litera, Sociologist Rudolf Battek, Historian Jan Tesař and others. Five defendants were given suspended sentences. More important leaders of the Prague spring, including Milan Hübl, former chief of the Party Training College, and Liberal Journalist Jiři Hochman, are still in prison and awaiting trial...
Jail Terms. Among the victims of the purge were Theoretician Milan Hübl Kosík, who helped plan the reform program of the Prague Spring; Journalist Jiří Hochman, an editor of what was once a crusading magazine, Reportér; Party Historian Karel Kaplan; and Chess Player Ludek Pachman, an international grand master. Rudolf Slansky Jr. and Jan Sling, sons of the Communist leaders who were executed as "Titoist traitors" after show trials in 1952, were also arrested and then released...
WALKING PAPERS by Sandra Hochman. 211 pages. Viking...