Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Novotny orgy to avoid an X rating in the U.S., is wonderfully performed by Hurt (pained irony), McKellen (droll reserve) and, as Rice-Davies, Peter Fonda's daughter Bridget (comic acuity). The film names names and gets the tone right. ! This is a morally exhausted society, where every woman is a whore and every man a pimp or a trick until proved otherwise. It has no hero or heroine, only a victim: Stephen Ward, who loved trashy women and was betrayed by distinguished...
Alice Walker ascended from the realm of mere literature after Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of her novel The Color Purple. The movie's huge commercial success -- and the controversy that arose over its portrait of black males -- ensured Walker's public renown as a woman with a cause, an author who, when she has a message, would rather write a book than call Western Union. Indeed, her poetry and fiction have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose...
...article also attempted to dispel a rumor that a female student had been killed in the protest. The woman, it said, was hit by a car as she returned from the demonstration. Many students believe police killed her, although it appeared the newspaper's account was correct...
Video Sickness has its moments. Its best efforts come through in short, crisply edited clips like "Arnold's Favorite Love Songs," an advertisement for an album collection of Arnold Schwart-zenegger singing Don MacLean's "Crying" and Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman," among others...
...Chauncy St. resident was arrested at his home at about I a.m. yesterday after he allegedly stabbed a pregnant woman to death in a Brookline restaurant, police said...