Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marvin, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan as four nail-hard professional gunmen hired at $10,000 apiece to find an errant wife (Claudia Cardinale) and return her to her husband...
...giving between husband and wife, that is virtually an index of the success of a marriage. Only in the closest of unions would a husband succeed in buying the right kind of antique Wedgwood vase; and if he knows the correct size for a half-slip, he almost knows too much. On the other hand, it takes more than love-profound intuition and knowledge of character-for a wife to choose the right necktie for her husband. In marital giving, moveover, there is a subtle language: the pingpong table as a gentle hint to the husband who does not spend...
...trend that takes all the surprise out of giving between spouses is the "stag shop" set up by many department stores. The wife comes in to fill out file cards listing several things she would like, and the husband dutifully appears to declare how much he can spend-and to make out his card, which his wife later uses as a guide. "Why not?" asked one woman in Seattle, setting down a description of a beige mink pillbox hat. "The year I didn't fill out a card, my husband gave me a sink garbage disposer." The system would...
Actually, Yerma is no-barren. It is her husband Juan (Frank Langella) who is sterile - and doesn't want any babies around the house anyway. An old crone offers her son as an inseminative agent, but Lorca cannot let Yerma commit adultery because he intends the play as a tragic stalemate between honor and instinct. Surrounded by women who take a sensual delight in their fecundity, poor Yerma is reduced to beating her breasts and moaning, "I feel two blows of a hammer here instead of my baby's mouth...
This characteristic infelicity of image and language shows how Poet-Translator W. S. Merwin has diluted Lorca's intense lyricism, which in Spanish almost sustains the play. Having no place to go, the play capsizes into melodrama, with Yerma strangling her husband to death in the last scene...