Word: sluttish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their gringoized culture seems to them slightly sluttish. Their thinking is "cogitus interruptus." Only occasionally is there a political edge to their talk. Toward the end of the novel, the actor says without much conviction that he is going to join the guerrillas in the mountains. The announcement causes little stir, and is swept away by the barman...
This time around the heroine is Beatrice, the divorced/widowed mother of two high-school girls, one a sluttish convulsive, the other a painfully shy Plain Jane. Beatrice's family makes its home in a ground-floor apartment that looks like the setting of The Glass Menagerie thirty years and several natural disasters later. For money there is the rent mother collects from cruel families who dump their dying elderly in the flat's spare room...
Saved takes place in the now familiar world of redbrick slavery, of lower-middle-class depths, of dirty diapers and dirtier sinks. The characters are like seedy relatives whom one loathes and loves-caustic embittered mom, silent spine-shattered dad, sluttish frustrated daughter. Into their midst comes Len (James Woods) the perennial innocent, scarily looking for sex at the beginning, resignedly settling in as a paying roomer...