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...even below it. Snaps Black Actress Val Gray: "I can't address myself to the problems of a woman in Highland Park [a white, upper-middle-class Chicago suburb] when she is trying to get out of her kitchen and I'm in her kitchen as a maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Blacks v. Feminists | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

Cassandra Warshowsky plays a maid with bright, starstruck eyes, a face fast as quicksilver and an awkward energy that has Liza Minelli written all over it. Donnally Miller's vague and woeful wildman has a strange way of displaying innocent curiosity. He even speaks his lines as if they themselves are a source of wonderment-it's perfect. Laure Solet's performance brings the concept of complaint to its highest reaches, with a successful method that can only be called nervous nonchalance. All in all Sam Shepard's play is so vigorously acted that one's magnanimity cannot help...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: It Won't Work on Paper | 3/24/1973 | See Source »

...suppose we're lucky you didn't describe Pat as "an old maid living with four of her children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1973 | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...child bride (Victoria Mallory) who, after eleven months, is still skittishly virginal. Completing the household is Cariou's son (Mark Lambert) who has a jittery case of postadolescent puritanical guilt and an unholy crush on his stepmother. He, in turn, is pursued by a lusty wench of a maid (D. Jamin-Bartlett) who believes that sex is an act rather than a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Valse Triste | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...film tells the actions of three sisters and a maid who wait through the autumn in a country mansion for one of the sisters to die. Agnes (Harriet Andersson) has cancer; her older sister Karin (Ingrid Thulin), the smartest and severest of the group, and her other sister, Maria (Liv Ullmann) an overripe coquette, have temporarily left their husbands--a diplomat and a businessman--to nurse her at their childhood home. The peasant girl, Anna (Kari Sylwa), is a servant who has been with the family for years and is devoted to Agnes...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Tissue of Lies | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

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