Word: incest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author with a large problem: how does one prevent the subject from taking over the whole book?-Foggage.Patrick McGinley's third novel, features the incestuous love of a twin brother and sister living in the Irish country side. Luckily for the reader. McGinley is to skillful to allow the incest itself to absorb the story. His matter-of-fact treatment of the details of their love and a well-crafted plot keep the story from being bogged down by free-floating sentiment or shapeless descriptions of characters. McGinley's polse, skill, detachment, and emotional thoroughness make this novel, remote through...
...pity we've been born before our time. In a few hundred ears incest will be as common as ditch water and as dull. too. You see, when they first started in breeding cattle, the Holy Marys said it was incest, that it was against God's law. But the farmers won the argument. They said that they were breeding best to the best, a good bull to his sister or even to his mother...
...take exception to the title of your article "Daddy's Disturbed Little Girl" [Jan. 2], which discusses the TV show about incest. Incest victims are just that, victims. Put the blame where it belongs: on Disturbed Little Dad and his ever so silent partner, Disturbed Little...
...movie is billing itself as the first serious drama to explore another forbidden television topic: father-daughter incest. (Brother-sister love was peeped at earlier this year by NBC'S Princess Daisy.) The two-hour show Something About Amelia, scheduled for Jan. 9, is receiving the prudent treatment that is usually accorded "controversial" subjects. Its promotional material comes replete with warnings for parents and a scholarly bibliography. Nevertheless, despite the effluence of manufactured sanctimony, Amelia is a taut and honest, if somewhat monochromatic, treatment of a painful subject...
Amelia confutes the stereotypes of incest and most TV movies: there is no drunken, leering father and no happy ending. If anything, the characters err slightly on the side of restraint. The main flaw in this relentlessly flat and realistic approach lies in the written character of the social workers and psychologists who deal with the problem. They are all unrelievedly sympathetic. But this is a minor quibble. Amelia provides an exception to the network's tired formula for taboo breaking by avoiding prurience and comforting clich...