Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote raised doubts as to whether he could sew up the Democratic nomination before the convention. One reason why Muskie slumped in New Hampshire was his effort to campaign simultaneously in several other states with upcoming primaries, particularly Florida. An easily fatigued campaigner who complains about his "mad schedule," he spent only 13 days stumping in New Hampshire this year as compared with Senator George McGovern's 24, thus spreading himself too thin. McGovern, on the other hand, steadily built up his share of the vote from 18% a month and a half ago to an impressive...
...flatly states: "I identify with Women's Lib. I watch one of those women on Johnny Carson and I think, That's me.' Then I get up the next day, feed the kids and clean house and it wears off. Still it makes me so mad to be always Mrs. Richard Bulkeley. I don't have a first name of my own. I'm a person too. I wouldn't want to be called Women's Lib, though. That's going too far." One woman reports snubs from neighbors for expressing similar...
...better or for worse." But it is clear by now that many of them too, from time to time, are caught up by the cause. To capture the feelings of some of them, at least, TIME turned to Sue Kaufman, wife, mother, and author of Diary of a Mad Housewife, a novel (and later film) that early sounded the tocsin of domestic alarm...
...anywhere from 25 to 45-a wife, a mother, a housewife. She is usually far from mad (crazy or angry), far from being wildly bitter -but also far from being satisfied with what or where she is. Though she isn't too clear on where she would rather be, she knows it isn't up there on the big, steamrolling bandwagon of Women's Lib, or in the front ranks of the marching phalanx, waving banners. Much as she admires them...
Screenwriter Eleanor Perry, who recently came to the end of both her marriage and her collaboration with Director Frank Perry (David and Lisa, Diary of a Mad Housewife), is perhaps the most zealous of all the ad vocates for a feminine point of view in films. "Why are male directors so in volved in showing how barbaric man is?" she asks. "I can't imagine a woman making either Clockwork Orange or Straw Dogs. Women would bring to the screen something that celebrates life, that investigates its wider possibilities instead of exploring depravity. My whole approach to films since...