Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...else and what they're doing. Visiting my grandmother, one of the local matriarchs, is always an occasion Despite our protest that we have eaten, overeaten, or can feel our aortas congealing into hockey pucks a la S. J. Perelman, she always has more food ready than any undernourished victim of Harvard cooking could eat in weeks. And because my grandmother is a Syrian Jew, it's delightfully exotic food--stuffed grape leaves, soups with unpronouncable names and apricot desserts. But the food aside, visiting the relatives is part and parcel of the vacation ordeal. The same recital of courses...
Some of the pummeled husbands are too old or sick to defend themselves, but most are able bodied. One type of victim is the baffled he-man who is afraid of unleashing his own violence. Says Steinmetz: "There is a feeling among beaten men: 'If I ever let go I would kill her.' " Another type is the passive, dependent man who has sought out a strong wife to shield him from worldly problems. Barbara Star, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California, finds that battered spouses are usually people who feel overwhelmed by life...
Behind her husband's back, the wife (Olympia Dukakis) wants to unload the house and property to a smarmy, carnally inclined real estate operator and then flee with the land shark to the cultural dreamland of Europe. The husband (James Gammon), a complicated victim of drink, anger and despondency, wants to shed the property and escape to Mexico alone...
...influx of aggressive new talent (prodigal swingman Don Chaney, quarterback-with-a-new-lease-on-life Ernie DiGregorio, and unfortunate-victim-seeking-asylum-and-full-time-power-forward Kermit Washington), reincarnation of former pouters like Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe, and long-awaited discipline to present pouters like JoJo White have finally given Sanders supporting players for Dave Bing, Dave Cowens and John Havlicek...
True, Adams overwrites almost every scene, but he manages to turn that fault into a virtue. Length can lull disbelief and make the unlikely seem familiar. Snitter, for instance, has been the victim of mind-control experiments and consequently hallucinates a fair amount of gibberish: "There's a mouse - a mouse that sings - I'm bitten to the brains and it never stops raining - not in this eye any way." The effect of a terrier doing his impression of the fool in King Lear is at first disconcerting. It grows less so with each appearance, and those...