Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Animal House contains every college stereotype you can think of, from the frigid WASP princess who takes her rubber gloves along on jaunts to lover's lane to the self-styled Casanovas, who try endlessly to perfect their pick up routines. All of them take their lumps at least once, with almost everyone getting it or dishing it out in the screamingly funny, bangup ending...
Such family nurture is the province of the Mormon woman. "Because they are expected to be a mother of eight, a charming hostess, the perfect housekeeper with no help, and supportive of their husbands in all things, there's a lot of stress," says Mormon Housewife Mona Daniels. The church is honoring its women with a new sculpture garden at a restored village in Nauvoo, Ill., one of the Midwestern communities where raging mobs drove out the Mormons in the mid-19th century after Prophet Smith was shot to death. Despite the gesture, the church is adamantly opposed...
...course, not all the photos in the show partake of surrealism. We still have a few descendants of the Ansel Adams-Minor White tradition, the makers of perfect, eloquent prints recording some aspect of nature with a lyrical gravity of inspection. Perhaps the best of them is Paul Caponigro, whose photographs of the prehistoric standing stones at Avebury in England (one of them looking surprisingly like Rodin's rough-hewn monument to Balzac) are of astounding fidelity to the substance they depict; every grain in the print corresponds, in some way, to the age and density of the rock...
...problems stem mostly from legal battles with his former wife Betty, 54, who lives at Lovejoy, the 1,400-acre family plantation southeast of Atlanta, where she runs a meat brokerage business. For years it seemed they had a perfect political marriage. But he drank, she says, and the marriage deteriorated. She came down with the Washington-wife blues and started seeing a psychiatrist. One evening in 1976, shortly after hog-killing time, Betty Talmadge suddenly recovered. While watching the news on TV at Lovejoy, she discovered that the Senator had filed for divorce. She went to the next room...
...SENSE, these movies may be reflecting reality. Certainly women (and men) are groping for the perfect medium in their marriages. The most obvious sign of conflict can be seen in the startlingly low figures for the number of babies which have been born to women of the late '60s generation. There have been only seven births in the Radcliffe Class of '68, and this trend seems to be continuing. Since women and men are not yet sure how to balance careers and children, they have done the obvious, which is, for the meantime, to stop having children. There have been...