Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, there is a woman with a mind behind the shopping baskets full of food that she walks around with. Alioto has a ton of money, but she seems to have run her campaign on trying to create an image, rather than an image of the issues, and what can you do with someone like that...
...charming Rue McClanahan, late of Lear's Maude, stars as a fey woman who, in the Depression, hires an entire family out of the want ads. Why? Never mind. Suffice it to say that there are a lot of F.D.R. and Anna May Wong jokes. Among the unruly supporting players, Dabney Coleman is refreshingly laid back as the heroine's hired fella, but the gifted Jack Gilford is squandered as a crochety blind grandpa. Someone should put Apple Pie back in the oven. - Frank Rich
...Somoza must go," a stunned woman said. "Only a madman would do something like this. We are not Communists here. Just common people," she added...
Olsen's most significant contribution lies in her perceptive discussion of the environment that nurtures creativity, and of those which destroy it. Why is it that only one out of every 12 writers is a woman? Why, in the period between 1850 to 1950, did only eleven black writers publish more than two novels? Why don't more poor people write? In the first place, Olsen contends, the most fundamental prerequisite for sustained, flourishing productivity, "the even flow of daily life made easy and noiseless," is a luxury the vast majority cannot afford. For mothers whose lives are "distraction...
...insights stored up during her period of silence. Each is a revelation in miniature, liberating the reader from widely--held misconceptions, many of which seem obviously false but which are too-rarely challenged. War, and the lives of the well-born, are subjects worthy of literature; child raising and woman's drudgery are not. Women are "the personal, the intuitive, the sensuous" sex; men, the analytic. A woman will find ultimate fulfillment only if she has children...