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...demise of the ERA in New York and New Jersey this fall proved that, to a certain extent, the forces of the women's movement have isolated themselves behind upper-middle class goals and rhetoric. The promoters of the ERA--mostly well-off, independent women--made a pathetic stab at communicating with women whose economic status, life-style and roles differed from their own. And Woman to Woman demonstrates how patently absurd this schism...
Such formidably gifted writers as Henry James and James Joyce made a stab at writing plays. Both failed. Therefore it is not unduly surprising that another writer of distinctive talent, Isaac Bashevis Singer, has also failed...
...Leontes's occasional facial tic, and the moment when, as he says, "'Tis Polixenes has made thee swell thus," he violently grabs Hermione's burgeoning belly. After the Delphic oracle eventually proclaims Leontes a "jealous tyrant" and the others blameless, this Leontes even pulls out a dagger to stab himself and has to be restrained (incidentally, in the source from which Shakespeare took the story, the king does commit suicide...
WHAT THE CZAR'S panorama does offer Allen is the chance to outgrow silliness and really explore absurdity. As the title suggests. Love and Death is Allen's stab at intellectual pretension. He teases love and death, duels and Dostoevsky, wars and warmongers. The movie opens with Boris in prison awaiting execution ("I go at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. I was supposed to go at 5 but I have a smart lawyer.") The plot itself is only quaintly wacky. A series of mishaps culminates in an assasination attempt on Napoleon's life, a tiresome case of mistaken identities...
...rise nationwide, concern about them seems to be more widespread today than ever before. At one institution, the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, assaults on doctors have risen by 20% to 30% in the past two years. To judge by recent reports of broken noses, stab wounds, fractured jaws and other injuries to therapists in big hospitals and high-priced private practices alike, the battered psychiatrist may become a new social phenomenon...