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...little can match the pathetic, yet typically wry, desperation of Woody Allen's THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Harvard Square, Sunday). Superficially, Mia Farrow sees her movie idol step off the screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...
Moreover, the burgeoning dissent within the expanding borders of the socalled "women's" realm represents at heart an impressive heterogeneity of social issues at stake. Feminism can no longer be regarded as a single radical ideology composed of socially-marginal elements. With potentially the single most powerful voting bloc at hand--in theory at least--feminist organizations currently serve as clearinghouses for a prolific variety of interest groups, allied with issues ranging from nuclear freeze to minority rights...
...liberation. Millet, a self-proclaimed anarchist and lesbian in her fifities, places first priority on "freedom of expression," less out of respect for constitutional law than because she distrusts all legal institutions. She depicts anti-porn legislation as handing over "the power of judgment" to the "puritannical" realm of "patriarchal" authority--not necessarily male--whose legitimacy she mocks...
TYLER'S OFTEN CYNICAL view of homelife is especially irreverent in its treatment of motherhood. Displaced from their traditionally sacred realm, mothers are often associated with neglectful absence. Homesick Restaurant opens with the dying words of the matriarch Pearl, whose children--haunted by guilt for their own inability to forgive--cannot escape even in her death the repressive intimidation she tormented them with in life. Following her death, Ezra, Pearl's favorite, becomes a kind of surrogate mother, collecting the family together for the homemade dinners their mother never provided and taking it upon himself to keep up at least...
...frequently murky realm of global oil prices, even the offhand remarks of Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani can create an avalanche of rumor and speculation. Last week the energy industry worldwide was abuzz over Yamani's latest actions. With an OPEC meeting scheduled for Oct. 3 in Vienna, the mercurial minister let it be known that he had entered negotiations that could lead to lower Saudi Arabian crude prices for some customers. The move was seen by many as evidence that prices of the hard-pressed OPEC cartel might be on the verge of cracking. Said John Lichtblau...