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...Doll's House follows Norwegian housewife Nora Helmer's burgeoning self-awareness as her husband learns of a deception she committed to save his life. His unsympathetic and selfish reaction leads her to question the basis for her marriage and her place in her society. The major problem with the traditional feminist interpretation is that much of the detail has become dated: turn of the century Norway is not 1980s United States. The Lowell production circumvents this potential flaw by emphasizing the underlying human relationships rather than the specifics of Nora's situation. Nora's struggle is transformed from that...
...services to be provided to the teams in Los Angeles. They charged that there were "reactionary political, emigre and religious groups" in the U.S. that were "teaming up on an anti-Olympic basis." Furthermore, said the Soviet press, the Reagan Administration was "trying to use the Games for its selfish political ends." Late last week the International Olympic Committee called a special meeting, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 24, to discuss the Soviet complaints...
...accused the U.S. of trying to curry favor with Iran and blamed the whole controversy on "some Zionist adviser" in Washington who was trying to incite "anti-Iraqi or anti-Arab sentiments." Saddam Hussein also accused the U.S. of hypocrisy, saying that Washington's policy was based on "selfish national interest at the expense of truth, honor and principle...
...general extracted just about everything he wanted from the Allies, a feat that won him the enmity of F.D.R. and the grudging admiration of Churchill. When someone suggested that De Gaulle was un grand homme, Churchill sputtered for many colleagues, "A great man? Why, he's selfish, he's arrogant, he thinks he's the center of the universe ... He ... Yes, you're right, he's a great...
From her mischievous and misleading title to her topsy-turvy feminism - "I say women are as innately evil and grasping or selfish as men and fully as criminal. They have a right to equal suspicion," says one malefactress - Cornelisen shares both the conspirators' secrets and their seditious high spirits. But she refuses to let them get away clean. After the caper, the culprits are unsettled not by their guilt or greed but, more fittingly, by their insouciance and sprightly intelligence. And in the end they begin to suspect that inefficiency may, after all, be Italy's greatest charm...