Word: itches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Fisher calls the "four-year itch" shows up unmistakably in today's divorce statistics. In most of the 62 cultures she has studied, divorce rates peak around the fourth year of marriage. Additional youngsters help keep pairs together longer. If, say, a couple have another child three years after the first, as often occurs, then their union can be expected to last about four more years. That makes them ripe for the more familiar phenomenon portrayed in the Marilyn Monroe classic The Seven-Year Itch...
...French have an itch to colonize. For centuries they explored, exploited and educated on three continents. Now their working tours of Africa, North America and Southeast Asia are over. The reverie fades like a holiday suntan; the legacy lingers like a scar. Why shouldn't that wound, which France inflicted on itself and its colonial subjects, be diagnosed on a big screen? Spurred by conscience, retrospection and, not least, the success of Hollywood movies about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia, French moviemakers are gazing into the rearview mirror of their Vietnam...
...what Husbands and Wives really imitates is some of Allen's best work. A professor (Allen) is indeed attracted to one of his students (Juliette Lewis). But she is seen as a girl with a dangerous itch for older men, and though the teacher knows temptation, he faces it down...
...twins. We wage fratricidal war -- ego vs. id, propriety vs. instinct, the will to do good vs. the itch to raise hell -- on the battlefield of our split souls. What is civilization if not the successful repression of the evil twin in all of us? And what is cinema if not an artful evocation of that same malevolent impulse? Seeing a thriller, we are schizo sibs: the part of us that is scared and the part that knows it's only a movie...
Personal anecdotal testimony is more emphatic. "This year has been the worst," pronounces Marina Gomes, 36, of Monroe, N.Y. Her head is constantly stuffed, her eyes water and itch, and she can't sleep. "It's horrible," she says. Dr. William Davis, director for pediatric allergies at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, calls 1992 the worst year in a decade. He says he is seeing patients who have not suffered such nasty symptoms for years, and his first-time visits...