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...Golden Bowl), little-seen indies (Tape, Chelsea Walls) and a few conspicuously horrible blockbusters (Batman & Robin, The Avengers). "I never built a niche for myself," says Thurman a bit defensively. "Some of that was because I didn't want the niches I could have had--the romantic heroine, the victim, the girl who needs to be rescued. And some of it is because I didn't go to college and I saw the early part of my career as a chance to explore and develop. I didn't want to find something that works and just stick...
...told her instructors, ‘It happened just like you said,’” Metivier says. “[And] she was not the victim of sexual assault that night...
...cameras merely gawk at women. They make movies with morals-sad ones about a woman's wiles and vulnerability, her rough handling by society, an infernal temptation or a curse. Art films, of course, take the woman's side; in serious cinema it is always the Year of the Victim...
...Goodwin’s lawyer, Richard D. Clarey, maintained that Goodwin was a victim of discrimination...
Clarey also charged that Goodwin was a victim of negligence on the part of the University. Harvard failed to protect her against employer discrimination and was not sufficiently candid about her case, he said...