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...Corners consisted of emergency repairs: some homes were in such poor shape there was no hope of restoration, so new ones were trucked in from nearby communities. Subsequent chores included rewiring, plumbing or simply applying a fresh coat of paint, which is generally done by Four Corners' star painter, Thelma Collins. The women raise money through bake sales, barbecue dinners, fish fries and a TV raffle that netted $1,345. All money is deposited in an account at Iberia Savings Bank, which, along with Southern Mutual and in conjunction with the Federal Affordable Housing Program, has set aside...
...speculations," he said on the magazine's 40th anniversary. That philosophy is now more compelling than ever. Important social issues like date rape, the deterioration of the environment and the troubles of America's educational system are news; so are advances in medicine and cultural phenomena. "When the movie Thelma & Louise came out, it struck a chord," notes Walter, "so it became news for us as well as a review...
...WHOLE ISSUE boils down to frustration. Women are angry about the things they've heard. Why did women cheer during the scene in Thelma and Louise in which the two women shoot at a truck driver who made lewd remarks to them on the road? It's because women are sick and tired of being objectified--having rude things said to them every time they walk down the street or being asked out at work by bosses who should know better. What happens if a woman draws attention to the kind of abuse she regularly ignores? She is told that...
...lessons movies have to teach. For most of the summer, a season that should provide a vacation from the heavy hand of pedagogy, moviegoers have been pummeled with do-gooder didacticism. Calves are good (City Slickers). So are dogs (101 Dalmatians). Men, of course, are baaad (Terminator 2, Thelma & Louise), unless they are ghetto fathers (Boyz N the Hood), in which case women are bad. Physicians need remedial courses in niceness (The Doctor, Doc Hollywood). And lawyers, should they care to join the human race, need a shot in the head (Regarding Henry). Some summer! Whether the star was Arnold...
This summer is different. Studio bosses, noting the kamikaze competition last year of all those action adventures, have released softer films (like the disease movies Dying Young, Regarding Henry and The Doctor) normally reserved for school months. The female buddy film Thelma & Louise served up an engaging pair of loser-heroes. True they were more reactive than active, dithering away their chances for escape and ending up as victims, not saviors. But they showed at least that women could dish out their share of violence -- whatever advance that represents. Even the muscle movies are admitting strong women. In Robin Hood...