Word: spinsterhood
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...face up to the question at its center. It ends with Gilles decision to marry Yvette; we can only guess what Louise, whose loneliness sparked the plot and whose carnal rebirth has been its main feature, will do. Perhaps she continues her quest, and perhaps she resigns herself to spinsterhood, but that--and not the conventional peace that Gilles makes with the world--should be the focus of the film...
...exactly Scarlett O'Hara, but then who is? The real Dixie woman, says Daniell, is doomed to madness, spinsterhood or suicide unless she conforms to one of a few revered stereotypes. There is, among others, the belle, charming and pampered to a fare-thee-well, groomed for little more than catching men: "If a woman behaved correctly-that is, in a properly manipulative and feminine way-she would receive the rewards of a doting (and successful) husband, comfortable house, beautiful children, and freedom from the need to work for a living." There is also the good ole girl, "realistic...
...Unmarried Woman: Aspects of Spinsterhood in Ante-Bellum New England--Lee Chambers--Schiller, associate professor of History, University of Colorado, Agassiz House...
...murder his captives but to humiliate them. He forces a haughty middle-class tourist (Lee Grant) to bare her breasts; he makes cruel fun of the diner's crippled owner (Pat Hingle); he tells a fat young waitress (Stephanie Faracy) that she is doomed forever to spinsterhood. By the time that Teddy departs, his victims have been stripped of their selfdelusions. Meanwhile, the audience has been treated to a headache-inducing avalanche of shouting matches and two-bit catharses...
...little ironies." The locale is St. Louis in the mid-'30s, though that means more in attitude than in geography. The plot is bare-bones simple. Dorothea (Shirley Knight) is a blonde schoolteacher who has read the handwriting on the blackboard. She is spooked by incipient spinsterhood. A recent brief liaison with the school principal, a flighty socialite named Ralph T. Ellis, has lodged the romantic hope in her mind that she is his intended. Bodey...