Word: snodgress
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...swamping the media. Lady Bird Johnson tells McCall's' readership what it was really like a heartbeat away from the President. Gloria Steinem brings a tape recorder to the Harvard Business School, listens to all the women students wailing, and plays it back to New York magazine. And Carrie Snodgress dissects her marital crisis with a dash of liberal chic for every audience of The Diary of a Mad Housewife...
...Joyce Carol Oates is not a women's liberationist. She is not as groovy as Gloria Steinem, nor as chic as Carrie Snodgress. You can't rip her books off the Coop's feminist display table and liberate your grandmother for Chanukah. But The Wheel of love. Oates' latest collection of short stories, is probably the most powerful and harrowing compilation of female confessionals shared in a long time...
Diary's hapless heroine is Tina Balser (Carrie Snodgress) who has a set of hang-ups that might shock Mary Worth. Jonathan, her lawyer husband (Richard Benjamin), is an Ivy League cretin who announces to their children at the breakfast table: "Your mother made Phi Beta Kappa at Smith, but I don't think she can make a four-minute egg." This sort of thing is hardly conducive to connubial bliss, so Tina tends to get turned off when Jonathan yearns for a "little old roll in de hay." She begins a passionate "sex thing" with a surly...
Every character in the script is a clumsy caricature, so there is not much the actors can do. Carrie Snodgress is good enough as the bedeviled Tina, and Frank Langella contributes many moments of force and subtlety to his boisterous role. But Richard Benjamin, one of the standouts of Catch-22, takes a giant step backward. The part is a ludricrous stereotype; Benjamin plays it-or is directed by Frank Perry to play it-like a buffoon...
Goldwaits H. Dorr 3d, New York City; William S. Kaden, Brookline, Mass.; John C. Livingstone, Pittsfield, Mass.; William P. Pierskalla, Bomidji, Minn.; Anthony Jonathan Saville, NewYork City; Rex J. Snodgress, Arlington, Va.; Kenneth G. Swan, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Joshua J. T. Whatmough, Winchester, Mass.; Arthur A. Willis, Braintree, Mass.; Kenneth G. Wilson, Bethesda, Md.; Alexis O. Thielens, Tuscaloosa...