Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently through a drawer, was moved to discover her old rosary. Cunneen qualifies as a Catholic feminist: she is painfully aware of the line that runs between Saint Athanasius' 4th century contention that Mary "remained continually at home, living a retired life and imitating a honeybee" and the impossibly pure, impossibly obedient "Housewife Mary" rejected by many of Cunneen's peers in the 1960s...
Scene I: The Pure Joy Toy Factory, located somewhere in the Third World. It is dawn, and the children are marching in to begin the day shift, singing "Hi ho, hi ho, It's off to the multinational workplace we go!/ Oh it's joy, joy, joy, to make a first-class toy/ For some lucky girl or boy/ Who can play, play, play/ All the livelong...
Enter Cruella, branch manager of Pure Joy Toy, wearing a gray cashmere business suit accessorized with a tasteful black riding crop. "Good news, children!" she announces in a voice that lets you know she's had her usual breakfast of boiled bunnies and Dalmatian pups. "Thanks to the upsurge of consumer confidence this Christmas season, I'm able to offer you unlimited forced overtime right through Christmas Eve! And to make it easier for you to focus on the task at hand, all exits and rest rooms will be locked for the duration!" As she leaves, we hear locks clanking...
...will be found, and knock timidly on the boardroom door. But alas, they find only a group of identical pudding-faced men in pinstriped suits, sitting around an oval table. One of the executives rises and smiles warmly at the kids. "We heard about the personnel problems down at Pure Joy, and do we have a big surprise for you--Cruella will be going on a week-long mandatory executive sensitivity-training program at our corporate retreat in Belize...
...Everyone Says I Love You All singing, all dancing, all talking, as they used to say. In Woody Allen's lovely flight of fancy, the singing is often kind of croaky, the dancing sort of klutzy and the dialogue pure Woody--the noises that psychologically aware, politically correct people make when they are at desperate sexual cross-purposes. But such folks are entitled to their romantic yearnings. This film's good-humored poignance--and high originality--lies in the contrast drawn between the characters' passionate desire to put a little music in their lives and their inability to carry...