Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maddox, the Cambridge attorney who wrote Question 9, said real-estate industry representatives had seized control of the rent control opposition. Real-estate groups gave the bulk of the campaign's funding. The Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB), for instance, gave more than $75,000 to the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), which fought for rent control...
...They sold us out," Maddox said...
Lawrence was also a man unable to reconcile this division with his need to believe in the redemptive power of one woman's love. Here, Maddox takes her cue, turning Lawrence's troubled marriage into the main "character" of her book. Her excellent sense of pacing gives the story a dramatic edge and an cerie sense of inevitability. She brilliantly characterizes the writer's wife, the refined yet oddly primitive Friends von Richthofen, a relative of the infamous "Red Baron." Maddox writes wittily, "such was the woman lying in wait for the lonely, ailing, direction-less D.H. Lawrence.... He never...
...both Maddox and Lawrence's view, however, Frieda provided the author the ultimate chance at greatness, by acting as his muse. As a woman, she embodied a feared and dreaded negation which aroused Lawrence's violent hatred. He thrived on her contradictions. Despite her flagrant infidelities, he insisted that she was the love of his life. She served as the inspiration for works as varied as the violent "The Woman Who Rode Away" and Lady Chatterley's Lover...
...adeptness at conveying both one man's eccentricities and the collective neuroses of a seemingly distant time and place. The book also serves as a reminder of our own generation's unhealthily narrow-minded obsession with sexual identity. Amidst the increasingly convoluted discourse of love, marriage and sexual orientation, Maddox refuses to offer simple answers where none exist. D.H Lawrence embodied a kind of erotic pleasure that was oddly circumscribed. He articulated a "free love" ethic which Maddox reveals to be perversely doctrinaire and neurotic. His latest biographer appreciates these contradictions...