Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...images. And while I'm rather proud of the service women have given through religious orders, the fact remains that the leadership and decision-making power in the Church is in the hands of the clerics," Kelley said. "And the attitudes and views towards women are limited to the role of motherhood qualities; childbearing and rearing and keeping a happy home...
Hemingway seems understandably comfortable in the role of Chris. Too comfortable, at times; she simply walks through many of the scenes, saucereyed, plopping her lines into the laps of others. But her acting improves when she's in good company; she's fine in the rape scene, where Chris Sarandon gives a controlled performance of a moderately sick young man, without resorting to the crazed eyes and maniacal gestures of the stereotype. And her willful strength in the courtroom is the reflected glow of Anne Bancroft's fiery performance as her lawyer. Bancroft, looking rather haggard, uses her familiar tight...
...excerpt reads like a political memoir, with all the characteristic flaws of that genre: first-person approach, great emphasis on the writer's own role, slightly wooden style, exaggeration of the bits of history the writer happens to know about first-hand. And even if a little positive revisionism on Johnson-particularly about his role in civil rights--might be a good thing, knowing that his Vietnam policy stemmed from his relationship with his mother seems, in the end, only to trivialize what happened there...
...Horowitz build that up into a life-destroying crisis. Their billing of David as a failure has to do with the Chase Manhattan Bank losing a little gound to its chief rival. Even Winthrop, the most convincingly unsuccessful of the brothers, doesn't elicit much sympathy for his lowly role as millionaire cattle rancher and governor of Arkansas...
Family life plays the greatest role in Bruch's theory of who gets anorexia and why. "It is possible," she writes, "that the success, achievement, and appearance orientation of these families is in some way related to the patient's driving search for something that will earn him respect." Despite the apparent stability in the anorexic's home--very few come from broken homes--Bruch finds in the parents a deep disillusionment with each other. They are competing secretly to prove which is the better parent. The mother is likely to be an achievement-oriented woman, frustrated in her aspirations...