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...exactly garden-variety glamorous, Maude is even less likely as the heroine of a TV situation comedy. In a medium that until a few years ago shied from portraying divorced women and left politics to the 6 o'clock news, Maude is on her fourth husband and her umpteenth outspokenly liberal cause. She bullies her family and neighbors with the steamroller self-assurance of a Marine sergeant marshaling a troop of Cub Scouts, and when that fails, she invokes the aid of the Deity. "God'll getcha for that," she warns those who cross...
...studio on the East Side of Manhattan, that presence is quite evident. Hutton is the calm center of the storm of activity swirling around her. As she lounges on a sofa in her slinky red-sequined snakeskin dress. Hairdresser Ara Gallant deftly recombs her honey-blonde hair for the umpteenth time...
...Growing old is picking up a new edition of TIME, for the umpteenth time, and not knowing the face on the cover. Liv Ullmann? Sic transit Gloria Swanson...
...umpteenth time, Leonard tried to save her from the rising wave of madness. But one of the horrors of her tragedy was that with part of her mind she could watch her own deterioration. On March 28 she put a heavy stone in her coat pocket and walked into the river Ouse, leaving her husband a heartbreaking note. "Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been...
...goes on, for the umpteenth time in feminist literature, to trace the step-by-step development of girls into unhappy or "feminized" women ("Baby," "Girl," "Puberty," etc.). Feminist literature, perhaps in an attempt to get away from what has always been female dependence, often ends up repeating itself. Women get too wrapped up in their own way of saying things, trying to prove that they've psyched it out better than the others, and forget that their sisters have said the same thing just as well. Simone DeBeauvoir started this generation's plotting of the course of Where We Were...