Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They threw away their bras as a symbolic breaking loose, they foreswore make-up in revolt against the Look, and donned shapeless Indian prints that defied the Hollywood wasp-waisted ideal. They sat with legs widespread in mockery of Propriety and wore tattered jeans to taunt Ladylike Deportment. And they stopped shaving and stopped bathing to exult in the smells they trailed in the air. Rebellion against the Look was merely the easiest way to protest the Role, since the Look, be it slickfigured or heavy-breasted, was primed for seduction, for capitalizing on your assigned status...
...made me hate them for it. I hated them for having the power I didn't, I despised them for not being 'man' enough when they weren't powerful, I hated myself for wanting that power. In short, I was paralyzed by my loyalty to the only feminine ideal I had ever known...
...screen he cops out in the film on what is most effective in the play. Nora (Claire Bloom) has that sort of perfect fine-featured face with lines of tension at the edges that tell you about the anxiety she suffers in living up to the Victorian ideal of femininity: women should be seen and not heard. She finally slams the door on it and, to boot, on children and her husband who is insufferably male with a vengeance. Cheri...
...screen he cops out in the film on what is most effective in the play. Nora (Claire Bloom) has that sort of perfect fine-featured face with lines of tension at the edges that tell you about the anxiety she suffers in living up to the Victorian ideal of feminity: women should be seen and not heard. She finally slams the door on it and, to boot, on children and her husband who is insufferably male with a vengeance. Cheri...
...screen he cops out in the film on what is most effective in the play. Nora (Claire Bloom) has that sort of perfect fine-featured face with lines of tension at the edges that tell you about the anxiety she suffers in living up to the Victorian ideal of feminity: women should be seen and not heard. She finally slams the door on it and, to boot, on children and her husband who is insufferably male with a vengeance. Cheri...