Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Out at her beach house, a free soul (Elizabeth Taylor) enchants a minister headmaster (Richard Burton), and causes his wife (Eva Marie Saint) a lot of grief in The Sandpiper...
...near exhaustion, but enjoying him self. "Sometimes," he says once he is back in the car, "I don't think I'm going to be able to make it." He is asked why, in view of the wear and tear, the enormous problems of the job, his wife's reluctance about his running, is he making the race. "I guess it goes all the way back to how I was raised in Italy. We grow up there respecting our parents and our priest and our teachers and our officials. To be a leader of any kind...
...wait. His entourage is invited in for a drink. "Mackell going to pay for this?" Procaccino asks. Assured that refreshments are indeed on the missing Mackell, the candidate suddenly snaps his fingers. "As long as I've got the night off," he announces, "I'll take the wife and daughter out to dinner." He finds a pay telephone and is about to dial when he notices that a reporter is watching him. "You're the one from Washington, aren't you? What's the matter, the President of the United States doesn...
...seduced by the securrity of a haven into a life of bored housewifery. Or if power is your game. you may choose the emaculating Big Mama costume. If neither of these appeals, you can give up both power and security with the "loose broad" approach. Even the "enlightened" wife who keeps her career finds that her husband's work takes precedence over hers and winds up completely frustrated and unsatisfied. Russian Roulette with six bullets is not much of a game...
...quite buy it. The men in the play have as little dimension as its women and are faced with equally bleak alternatives. There is no intrinsic reason why a man should enjoy supporting a bored wife or being dominated by an emasculating one. Though he may not have to stagnate in his home. there are millions of jobs he could get which are as stultifying as housekeeping. And we are back again to the overworked villain-society...