Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aged seven or eight was lying on the asphalt, a bullet hole in its head. Three women in a nearby ditch screamed for help. I helped them limp to waiting ambulances. A young couple emerged from the ditch screaming, 'We had two children in the bus.' The woman was hysterical. 'Where are my children, my children?' she cried. The husband was steely calm. 'If my children are dead,' he said with eerie softness, 'I'll kill all the Arabs in the world...
...pursuit of those images, Herzog has made one film in which the actors were hypnotized, another in which all the actors were dwarfs, and a third in which the leading character, an old woman, was both deaf and blind. His best work, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), might serve as a metaphor for the whole German school. Aguirre, a Spanish conquistador played by Klaus Kinski, revolts against the crown and attempts to build a new empire in the jungles of Peru. The film, a kaleidoscope of the fabulous and the bizarre, would be noteworthy even if it stopped after...
...story of Petra von Kant is the enslavement of love. Petra, a dynamic dress designer played by the wonderful Margit Carstensen, dominates all around her until she falls in love with a younger woman (Hanna Schygulla). Her young lover soon rules her, and poor Petra is literally sent to her sickbed. Only when she falls out of love is her fever broken. Critics have speculated that the trusting, innocent title character of Fox and His Friends is Fassbinder's portrait of himself, particularly since Fassbinder, who is also a talented actor, played the part. His friends, however, know that...
...milk ads, in Mademoiselle magazine and Western supermarkets, feature a luscious young woman in sportswear, with copy touting both "the milk-white look" in fashion and the virtues of drinking cow juice. Why would that seem unwholesome? Well, to begin with, complains a collection of California and national consumer, women's and black groups, the ads present women as sex objects. Worse, as racist sex objects. In the view of the protesters, the ads imply that only white women are desirable. Says Consumers Union Lawyer Luana Martilla: "The implicit message is that milk-white skin equates with health, beauty...
...home and in his office to cover up the bruises and face bites. An Army veteran and multiple amputee living in Georgia says his wife routinely socks and kicks him "just for being so useless, I guess." A former Virginia television personality endured a 26-year marriage to a woman who regularly punched him in the groin and face while he was driving. Once she bashed his head open with two cans of Campbell's pepperpot soup...