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Word: housewifedom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reservation strikes a blow for unliberated womanhood. Eva Marie is converted from "doing her own thing" to housewifedom and motherhood after some heavy petting with Hope, who manages to extricate them both from imprisonment in a cave. To do this, he shoots a signal out of a crack in the rocks with a homemade bow crafted from a handy branch and Eva Marie's leopard-skin brassiere. "I'm certainly glad I didn't burn my bra," coos Eva Marie. This sort of sniggering sitcom stuff belongs more prop erly on television, the celluloid burial ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Road to Ruin | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

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