Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theme of concealment of maternal identity invites comparison with Caryl Churchill's contemporaneous Top Girls. But in contrast to Churchill's gritty political realism, My Mother Said I Never Should provides a tender and ultimately uplifting perspective on the experience of women in this century. No one who finds themselves on Beacon Hill with a few hours to spare has any excuse...
...misery and are sometimes happy and sometimes sad. This might well have been Carver's point, in fact, but the film fails where the stories succeed because the latter are tinged with a feeling of bittersweet nostalgia that the former totally lacks. With unforgivable crassness, Altman hangs Carver's tender, private moments out to dry under the harsh, voyeuristic glare of the cinematographic lens...
Late in the first half, however, Hartwick began to play like its ranking promised. The Warriors continuously bombarded Crimson goal-tender Ned Carlson (six saves) with shot after shot, until finally one got past...
Still, the men in the film are never portrayed as representatives of their sex; in fact, all of the mothers go on to marry decent Asian men. One scene prominently features a tender father poignantly sharing memories about his wife with his daughter. Another scene shows one of the women with her new Asian beau, a man whom another man honors with the ultimate in masculine praise--he calls him a "cowboy" when his girlfriend acknowledges his virility...
...flashbacks in this mag don't stop here. B.A. Baracus is back and in this week's Scrutiny. He's 41!! years old, tough, and tender. He talked dining utensils, comic books, and Gary Coleman with Dan Sharfstein. We're pretty psyched and hope...