Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When whites get into arguments about segregation, an old question almost inevitably comes up: "Would you want your sister to marry one?" In nearly half the states of the union, she couldn't if she wanted to: in the way would stand a law prohibiting marriage between whites and Negroes...
...Opponents of the bill said that Mme. Nhu sponsored it only to prevent the husband of her somewhat restless sister from divorcing her, but the First Lady indignantly denies this. Says she soothingly: "I well knew that my sister would want a divorce herself when she found someone more appropriate." Today the sister does indeed want a divorce, but it is doubtful that President Diem will grant...
...general of the interior." Matriarchal strength is compounded by the traditional Vietnamese view of the family as monolithic and united against all outsiders, but in Mme. Nhu's case, her family by marriage takes precedence over her own blood. She has fallen out with her father, mother and sister. It is in Diem's clan that Mme. Nhu finds the place and the power she craves...
...fateful antinomy of power and love. Her leading lady (Geraldine Page) is a gabby genteel old maid, one of those wispy little women who flutter through the literature of the South like a flock of steel butterflies. She lives in a rotting ancestral manse, she graciously permits her spinster sister (Wendy Hiller) to wait on her hand and foot, she justifies her gistless existence by smother-mothering her younger brother (Dean Martin). The brother is a frivolous failure and she likes him that way. He makes her feel necessary, he makes her feel important; and in pursuing his problems...
...emptiness that only he can fill. He tries to. He buys her expensive dresses; she refuses to accept them. He clears away the mortgage; she says she hates the house. He hands her a ticket to Europe; she swears she will not go. What does she want? Her sister thinks she knows: "You want to sleep with him. You always have." But the audience knows better: she really wants to devour him. And at the climax she does...