Word: marian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel the case study method of learning law is irrelevant after the first year," Marian R. Penn, a third-yea student and one of the founders of the paper, said yesterday, "We feel we should have the opportunity to use the school as a base to get out in the community to do something...
...this point, The Edible Woman assumes the force of a banal dream that has turned, without the dreamer's quite noticing, into a nightmare. The metaphor of cannibalism takes over until all the characters appear as predators. The only hope allowed Marian at the end: if she becomes a consumer again herself, life may appear "normal" to her once more...
Novelist Atwood's quietly awful vision is summed up in a throwaway line. "Hunger is more basic than love," she murmurs in a bizarre aside. "Florence Nightingale was a cannibal." Amid the situation-comedy ordinariness of her life, Marian, the title character of The Edible Woman, suddenly finds herself in a very unfunny predicament. People are trying to eat her up. Her employers feed upon her energy, her fiance feeds upon her sexuality...
Sickened at discovering that all life is a form of cannibalism, Marian gives up eating meat-and finally gives up eating altogether. Even cake comes to feel "cellular against her tongue, like the bursting of thousands of tiny lungs...
...handful who are truly exceptional. Gig Young, who looks as if aged in alcohol, plays the suburban husband with just the right touch of craven satyriasis. Anne Jackson portrays his paramour with fine shades of comic realism, and Bob Dishy lunges about hilariously in pursuit of the superbly addled Marian Hailey. Harry Guardino plays his character with broad sympathy and a fine eye for detail, right down to his onyx pinkie ring...