Word: marsha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beth Israel, one of Harvard's affiliated hospitals, is expected to lose $10 million if the cap were implemented, according to the hospital's spokesman Marsha Zabarsky...
...created a deep rift among feminists. One side argues that pregnancy leave, even though it benefits individual women, poses a general danger to female workers because it singles them out for special protection. Historically, they point out, such privileged treatment has eventually led to discrimination against women. Says Marsha Levick of the National Organization for Women's legal defense and education fund: "That almost always backfires...
...swearing, for example, is well beyond the grunting demands of realism; it is an aria of obscenities and more a commentary on macho posturing than an assertion of it. Same thing with the women's magazines he reads. See, he hopes to re-up with his ex-wife (Marsha Mason, full of fire and ire) and thinks maybe a little secondhand psychobabble ("Did we mutually nurture each other?") will do the job. It's funny, and makes his toughness all the tougher. Heartbreak Ridge is not great Eastwood, but it will tide us over until the next Bronco Billy...
...structure of Marsha Norman's Pulitzer-prizewinning play was pure melodrama. An unhappy fortyish woman announces to her mother that she intends to take her own life that evening; the older woman tries many stratagems to avert the plan but fails in all of them. Improbable as this plot was, it permitted Norman to explore with sensitivity a dramatically less riveting, emotionally more subtle matter: an archetypally vexatious mother-daughter relationship. In adapting play to screen, Norman and Director Tom Moore have been somewhat undone by their new medium's imperatives. The realism of camera close-ups turns probability into...
...NEXT hour and a half, 'night, Mother reproduces Marsha Norman's minutely choreographed jockeying between mother and daughter, the former trying to persuade the latter to abandon her ghoulish intention and the latter holding fast to her position...