Word: lillian
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...time between the introduction of a new product or service and its acceptance as a mainstream must-have has grown remarkably short. Case in point: some 45 million U.S. households, or 50% of the total, now own videocassette recorders. Says Lillian Mohr, director of the Center for Economic Education at Florida State University: "Young people have redefined the 'necessities.' I hear them talking about how they 'need' a VCR or to go somewhere on vacation...
...CHARACTERS of Weeds add to the general schizophrenia. Lee's benefactor and later his lover, Lillian, is presumably a serious proponent of Lee's talent. The first time we see her, however, the main focus is her exposed cleavage which jiggles while she applauds. When Lillian discovers that Umstetter has lifted his masterpiece from Jean Genet's Deathwatch, she couldn't care less. After all, she's the food and drama critic. The screenwriters make her a middle-aged Barbie Doll, and raise the role above its flimsiness...
...Stalinism and leads to bad art and bad sociology and is not believable to people. Her [his wife's] view of how women are--although I do dishes and she's very militant--is kinda like that. They do tend to behave like she [referring to the character of Lillian] does regardless of their aspirations...
When word arrived that Calvin Coolidge was dead, she asked her fellow wits at the Algonquin Round Table, "How can they tell?" When Dorothy Parker died in 1967, nobody doubted that a void had been left in the ranks of major American humorists. Parker's friend and fellow writer Lillian Hellman arranged to have her ashes placed in a New York mortuary. But after Hellman's death three years ago, Parker's remains were moved to a safe in the Manhattan office of her executor, Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, who hoped that someone, possibly a distant relative, might step forward...
...Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic has all of these. Yet the point of this Tennessee Williams-style southern potboiler is not to shock, but to tell a story of the destructive power of greed, anger, and jealousy--and of the equally destructive power of naivete, truth and love...