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...Marilyn: Norma Jeane...
...MARILYN: NORMA JEANE, which is half Steinem's text and half photographs by George Barris, is both an earnest revisionist history and a coffee-table decoration wrapped in one glossy volume. Steinem attempts to debunk the endless, and accumulating, Marilyn myths and cast Monroe in a role more realistic than diamond-digger Lorelei Lee could ever...
Steinem also focuses on Monroe's biggest flaw and her ultimate downfall: her desperate need for love. Born illegitimate to an emotionally unstable mother who was to die in a mental institute, and later shuttled from foster homes to an arranged teenage marriage, Norma Jeane was to spend the rest of her life in search of the paternal love she never got. Steinem points a critical feminist finger at the Freudian psychoanalysts who could not help Monroe solve her problems because of the inherent sexism of Freud's theories. As a last resort, they prescribed pills, a move which proved...
...thought the honor system was great. I don't ever remember seeing someone cheat," says Norma Jean T. Fix '54, now a resident of Marlborough, Massachusetts...
Republican incumbent Bob Packwood easily returned to his Senate seat. In the governor's race, former Cabinet officer Neil Goldschmidt beat Republican Norma Paulus...