Word: jaffee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLASS REUNION, Rona Jaffe's account of the lives of four Radcliffe grads from the '50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to their 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright stereotype--Jewish-American Princess...
Jaffe, it seems, hoped depth of character would make up for lack of direction and action in the plot lines. But each attempt at psychological depth, at developing a character or portraying a crucial moment comes off like so much slop thrown at these cardboard figures to keep the reader...
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JAFFE SEEMS to think she's hip. As she parades her characters through the wreckage of conventional mores and nonchalantly points out homosexuality, feminism, premarital sex and other 70s concepts, Jaffe strains to create a sense of insight, a feeling that she has artfully revealed new truths about our society...