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...Forster's A Room with a View is like A Passage to India in miniature. But in his later novel, the sexual hysteria loosed in Miss Quested by her visit to an exotic land results in major melodrama. Lucy's milder--and curable --case of the same malaise creates only a delightful Wildean farce. At least that's all it does in this movie version of Forster's minor and diverting novel. The formality of James Ivory's style suits this spirit admirably, counterpointing and controlling the theatrical overplaying he encourages among his players. Maggie Smith as Lucy's dithering...
Wanda: You argue like a rogue elephant runs, Ralph. Look, Masters and Johnson showed that the clitoral-vaginal debate was irrelevant. There is only one kind of orgasm, and it almost always involves stimulation of the clitoris. It's just that orgasms without that stimulation are rarer and milder than those with...
...beady-eyed ex-husband threatens to sue Molly for custody of the kiddies if she doesn't quit her position and take up something milder. He claims that her job is endangering their daughters by bringing the brutes into too much contact with them. Just so we know that choosing between job and kids is going to be hard for her, Molly says, "My kids are more valuable to me than anything." When Molly refuses to adhere to his demand that she quit, the movie gets a silly courtroom scene with big, loveable, football players blundering to the defense...
THIS IS ACTUALLY one of the milder forms of humiliation which results from being a college student. Every summer, right after I start working, I run into a certain kind of person, and become locked into a conversation very much like this...
...which Harvard holds stock). In July, I drafted a letter supporting sanctions that was signed by 19 other university presidents and sent to Senate leaders. Eventually, after both Houses of Congress were on the verge of enacting a compromise bill, President Reagan signed an Executive Order announcing a milder set of penalties. I believe that the enactment of legislation with stronger sanctions would provide a more powerful expression of national opposition to apartheid, and I stand ready to continue working in appropriate ways to help bring about that result. Those who have a similar point of view may wish...