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...goes. The impregnated Pomme is back on the road, singing about her new-found identity: "I'm not a nanny nor a granny nor a fanny. I'm a woman. I am me." Suzanne works in a family planning center, meets a pediatrician and gets married (which does not necessarily mean copping out if the man is as colorless and undefined as this doctor is). When the film ends it is 1976 and Pomme and Suzanne are together again, completely fulfilled by their extended families, guitars and old photographs. Varda concludes her makeshift friendship by telling us, "They were alike...
...new-found confidence visibly emerged during the conference; women were suddenly put together with others sharing their views, hopes and anxieties. Alliances were forged for the battles that lie ahead. The women knew that their political skills were on trial, and they passed the test with flying colors. No one could accuse the participants of being any less adroit, canny or Machiavellian than men. Reports TIME Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin: "What had not been clear was whether women who were eager to improve their lot, but had never been involved in the political process before, could be kept...
Economy is not the only consideration. Many woodburners point out that a log fire is virtually nonpolluting. They also speak with pride of a new-found self-sufficiency; regardless of Carter, Congress and OPEC, they know that their families will not freeze this winter...
What disturbs the good-natured serenity of this trio now is not the spartan demands and hope of playing in the Super Bowl but the intrusion of self-realization. There is a special emphasis on an est-like movement called BEAT. Shake is converted to it, and his new-found saintliness threatens the stability of the maison à trois. His "seriousness" turns Barbara Jane's head. She must be rescued from both BEAT and marriage by Reynolds, who pretends a conversion of his own in order to expose the shallowness of the movement. The Ritchie-Bernstein version...
...endowment did rise last year, but at half the rate of the previous year's increase. And the balanced budget, administrators stress, is a sign of restraints and cutbacks, not new-found financial stability...