Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy for a woman to decide to have an abortion; much soul searching is done. It is not an instant, careless decision. To be bombarded with the right-to-life literature and ridicule seems as inhuman as the very process they are trying to prevent...
Both delegations were embarrassed at an incident that took place in front of the U.S. embassy while their talks went on. A Russian woman, Irina McClellan, married to an American professor of Russian history at the University of Virginia, chained herself to an embassy fence to protest a four-year Soviet refusal to give her a visa to join her husband. The woman was arrested and held for three hours, then released. Soviet authorities blocked transmission of U.S. wire-service photos of the incident and prevented CBS from sending satellite pictures of the woman chained to the fence. The next...
...town, sends for the new lesson books when the old ones expire. His feeling mounts when he is teaching lessons about the need to reach out to the world's abused and outcast. He was most eloquent when caught up in the story of the woman at the well and how Christ had transformed her life. Prayer is an integral part of his decisions...
What keeps "An Unmarried Woman" from the ranks of great moviedom is that one never really becomes involved. One is never truly worried about Erica--she is strong and capable of laughing at herself, even at the most painful of moments. Her relationships with people are all loving and we know that she is bound to pull through. It is satisfying but does not shake us on a deeper level. One comes out of the theatre content but without new perspective. And it is not likely to bring encouragement to divorced women who are trying to make it on their...
...three only slightly caricatured women. The genuineness of these women (despite their New York-style eccentric sophistication) and their interaction with one another is what holds our attention; their other problems--with men--are predictable and add little insight. Yet the capacity for comfort brought into the four-woman sessions is moving and believable. Erica's daughter Patty is a precocious (but hardly obnoxiously so), loving daughter who sides with her mother yet cannot reject her father. Old plot, new faces. Lisa Lucas's performance is well-honed, though, and the scene designed to make Erica's new lover (Alan...