Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideology. Though Sturges's other films, such as The Great McGinty, The Palm Beach Story, and Christmas in July say more about problems like the American Dream, virtue in American politics, and the connection between love and money, The Lady Eve is his most fully realized film. Concentrating on sexual relations, its resolution shows that the dominant American understanding of romantic love requires a suspension of self-consciousness, obscuring the reality that neither of the partners truly deserves the other's love and trust. It should also be mentioned that Sturges is probably the funniest man who ever made movies...
...these times when employers cannot ask questions about age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, etc., and cannot discriminate because of these factors, I find it ironic that so much detail on these matters was covered in your profiles of the candidates in Jimmy Carter's great talent hunt. I particularly find it offensive that it is important to know that one candidate married a farmer's daughter or that Blumenthal's parents were nonpracticing Jews. Isn't there enough to establish credentials without this? A person should be weighed on his merits and not on matters...
...glassy impersonality." So reads the description of Elvis Presley at age 40 in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. Rock musicians are stoned with praise and putdowns in this new anthology (Random House; $19.95). Elton John is called "a pudgy robot" who is "an object of pubescent sexual fantasy." Singer-Songwriter Joni Mitchell, writes Contributor Janet Maslin, did not recognize her "giddy romanticism" until she had recorded six albums. As for Janis Joplin, who died in 1970 of a drug overdose, Writer Ellen Willis notes that her revolt against conventional femininity "dovetailed with a stereotype-the ballsy...
...Susanna and the Elders (1610) is a work of staggering precocity, painted when she was 17. Beauty spied on and plotted against by randy, intrusive old men-this biblical incident was a hot and obvious favorite with late-Renaissance patrons, but Gentileschi turned it into an image of sexual fear in a way that, one suspects, no man could readily have imagined. The stocky, naked Susanna writhes as if in pain from the oppressive, whispering conclave above her; the picture is about impending rape, a common subject, but unique in being perceived from the woman's eyeline. Heavily influenced...
...exam schedule, unwittingly plopping himself down in the exam room for Adolescent Psych. Before a proctor could hand him a copy of the exam, the sloth was furiously scribbling quadratic equations into his blue book. But soon he lost patience, and digressed to a metaphysical discussion of his sexual malaise and acne problems...