Word: straitjacketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal as well as international relations, wartime France created odd alliances and fierce resistance. Lena (Isabelle Huppert), a Belgian Jew, emerged from an internment camp with her sad-sack husband Michel (Guy Marchand) and a handmade marital straitjacket. Madeleine (Miou Miou) saw her glamorous first husband die from enemy gunfire in the town square, then fell into a pleasureless marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls...
...cable may brandish their R-rated license, but none of the saltier four-letter words has yet passed the lips of a prime-time hero. No sitcom vixen has bared so much as a nipple. In the new shows one can detect a struggling within the mass-media straitjacket of language and sex. Prime time is like a twelve-year-old tentatively imitating his big bad brother: sneaking a cigarette, practicing a curse word, miming an open-mouthed kiss. Sex can only be suggested, of course, but it may also be suggestive; one smoldering glance can steam up any innuendo...
...revolution; he hasn't gotten that far. But he sees it rising around him and, like a man in a nightmare, hallucinates gigantic proportions on what is merely a small change in stature. Feminism for him doesn't mean that women have broken a little loose of the social straitjacket that once forbade them to call a man on the phone; initiate a choice of sexual partners rather than accept what circumstance deals them; or deviate from the admen's norm in clothing, speech and thought. No, the world since women's lib has become a terrifying jungle for nice...
...salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest finale of Act I, Gaetano swings both parts of a refrigerator door at Hud, knocks him cold, puts him in a straitjacket and packs him off to the dry-out sanitarium...
...Judiciary Committee. The amendment would start a dangerous practice of writing economic policy into the Constitution, would probably not take effect until 1987 even if it were ratified by the states, quite likely could not be enforced if it became effective and would put the economy in a lamentable straitjacket if it could be enforced. For it to be considered at all by a President and Congress that have just finished running up a record deficit that probably totaled $110 billion in fiscal 1982 is an exercise in the politics of the absurd...