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...said Voltaire. David Plante has given very little of either to the subjects of this memoir. Among the three "difficult women" in question, only Feminist Germaine Greer emerges from Plante's portrayal with a shred or two of personal dignity. Novelist Jean Rhys, who died in 1979, and Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's widow, who died a year later, have been observed in the distorting half-light of their declining days, when illness and alcoholism had served to dim the mind and obscure the spirit...
When Plante became friendly with Sonia Orwell she was in her late 40s, subject to spells of depression and illness. Invariably smashed at the literary parties she gave or attended, Sonia yelled insults at her friends, including Plante. Where was the luminous, vital woman whom Or well had been moved to marry, three months before his death from TB in 1950? Only in an appendix does the reader learn that Sonia was prodigiously well read, wrote petitions on behalf of imprisoned intellectuals around the world and paid her friends' medical bills...
...composition of Congress as well as the state legislatures" to include more women and "men who are genuinely feminists." The women's movement, vows Smeal, will become "a third force." Already NOW is raising upwards of $1 million a month, more than the Democratic National Committee. Says Sonia Johnson, one of the Illinois fasters: "We have gotten smart, and now we must get strong and get even...
Seven other women, on a hunger strike since May 18, sit in the capitol rotunda for three hours each day. One of the fasters, Sonia Johnson, 46, who was excommunicated from the Mormon church for her support of the ERA, has been hospitalized twice for muscle spasms and an adverse drug reaction, and is in a wheelchair; her weight has dropped from...
...merchandise are Italian, according to one fashion consultant), the French fashion industry is retaliating with standard operational disdain. "I think Italian designers are certainly worth encouraging," sniffs the mighty Givenchy. "I've never been into Armani's boutique here, or that of any other Italian designer," claims Sonia Rykiel, Parisian designer of knits that seem to slink under their own power. "The French have all the Italian skills and madness and creativity. Quite honestly, I can't name you a really crazy Italian designer...