Word: jensenism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades ago, the women's movement has spawned subgroups whose diverse interests range from pushing day care to combating pornography. In some ways, feminist politics have expanded too much to keep women under one tent. In the Thomas-Hill aftermath, feminists took their energy in different directions: Geraldine Jensen, who heads a Toledo-based organization that seeks to strengthen child-support laws, says she plans to use the recent performance of the Senate Judiciary Committee to illustrate to her supporters why tough enforcement legislation has failed. "Now people will understand me when I say that these are the ones making...
...experience . . . One finds his elements so perfectly true that even the moon herself must recognize them if she had time to look." For Jackson Pollock, in 1944, "the only American master who interests me is Ryder." From Andrew Wyeth and Morris Graves in the 1940s to Bill Jensen today, Ryder influenced or at least had some talismanic value for a striking number of Americans who had nothing else in common...
Most of the mystery of this movie lies in its attraction rather than its plot. The movie opens with yuppie couple Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) and Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) moving into one of those ridiculously large New York apartments that only people in movies can afford. They're happy, after their fashion--late at night, when Molly can't sleep, she shapes clay phallic symbols on her pottery wheel and Sam wakes up and helps her. Despite the fact his hands are caked with clay, he rubs her thighs. She gets all hot and bothered, and they dance...