Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KEEPING WITH THIS DECADE'S all-consuming obsession with self, so-called emancipated women writers increasingly have headed for their typewriters to spew forth tortuous, long-winded, accounts of their traumatized childhoods. Works belonging to this "coming to terms with my past" genre--Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Christine Crawford's Mommie Dearest, and Nancy Friday's My Mother/Myself, are ghastly examples--are more motivated by bitterness than any sense of liberation as they grovel self-indulgently in memory's sludge and heap almost exclusive blame on mother for singlehandedly engineering their adult misfortunes...
...interview last week in his Ritz-Carlton hotel room, Norman Jewison, director of And Justice For All, discussed why he made the movie--"I've always felt there were two laws in this country. One for the rich and one for the poor. I've always been suspicious of lawyers, but I've only seen the films about kindly lawyers...
...even after a look at the corrupt side of America's courts, Jewison still believes there's room for Arthur Kirklands out there somewhere. With a wry grin sitting in his 10th-floor suite, he attested "Arthur Kirkland is somehow true to himself. Justice is done." And Atticus Finch lives...
...precision and sensuousness, conveys Rosa's struggle with an immediacy that makes detachment impossible. She bombards us with images harsh and lush; passion for the country whose policies she hates scorches the pages, evoking South Africa's beauty, sordidness and terror. She moves from the overripe living room of an apartheid apologist to the stinking hut in a black township, from the lucid vigor of South Africa to the luxury of the Rivieva. Her prose mimics the near-cryptic, emotionally loaded economy of poetry, with all its symbolic richness. Reading this book is almost like plowing through about 400 pages...
...large number of professors confessed to being illiterate when it comes to outhouse offerings. When asked what he ponders in the powder room, Owen J. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science, replied briefly...