Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although in general the clubs are not discriminatory. Finnie admits that achieving racial integration is a problem. The clubs "represent a tradition that is WASP and elite, which most Blacks are averse to." Finnie says, adding that many Blacks feel pressure from other Blacks not to join clubs. Anti-Semitism in the Bicker system seems, however to have disappeared, Finnie says...
...Sorbonne and washes her face every day with Ivory soap. His voice swoops into baritone breathiness as thoughts pop into his character's mind with the urgency of revelation. Hers is the voice of well-bred reason-behind every line of dialogue there's a Wasp sting. Each actor built a solid reputation in off-Broadway theater; the first film for each was a sophisticated sci-fi horror show (Altered States for Hurt, Alien for Weaver) that exploited the performer's patrician features and willful wit. Now the makers of Eyewitness have conspired to play these...
...hesitant about breeding them; after a sexual encounter, one of the behemoths often succumbs to la grande mort. Most animals, Wallace relates, accept occasional rejections. But some take them quite seriously, and no one, even in a Woody Allen movie, is more tragically affected than the male solitary wasp. He enthusiastically copulates for as long as several days. But when the female signals that she has had enough by turning away, he makes no amends or entreaties. His biological function fulfilled, he dies...
...perfect free market economy. Compare the benefits of segregation--freedom to hate as one wishes--with its disadvantages. Grab some passing minority-group member by the elbow, and ask if he'd enjoy living in a system that guaranteed his political freedom but allowed some rich white WASP to, say, exclude him from Harvard...
...People, and her name is Mary Tyler Moore. Here, in the mother, we are supposed to find the motive force behind all the problems of the son and father, and, by extension, everybody. Moore (Tyler Moore?) does nothing with it. She's not allowed to show any emotions--cold WASP bitch--but she doesn't even evince any humanity. So she drifts through the movie like a white zombie. When her big scene comes at the end (Sutherland has just told her he no longer loves her), she is not so much an emotionally overwrought woman as a dead ringer...