Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed to reflect robots, again, emotion creeps into the scene and destroys the rhythm between the dialogue and actors machine-like movements. Similarly, Helen's descent into the underworld, replete with an affair, does not reflect a change of emotional intensity but continues the linear progression of a dissatisfied woman. No new miseries are brought to the audience's attention; if Helen is supposed to be the outsider with feelings, then she fails, for her development is fatalistic and mechanical...
...Josephine is in love with a seaman, Ralf Rackstraw, but she is betrothed instead to a much, much older man, Admiral of the Queen's Navy, Sir Joseph Porter. The Captain himself is in love with dear little Buttercup, but cannot marry her because she is a poorly Bumboat woman, of a lower class than he. So, these characters try to find love and belonging amid a chorus of grinning, gallivanting sailors, brightly dressed sisters, cousins and aunts, not to mention the rolling high seas. Actually, the calm flat waters of port, because, curiously enough, the good ship Pinafore never...
...district attorney's office has decided there's no law enforcement objective in prosecuting the woman," he said...
...lawyer's request, the university declined to give the name of the woman or her lawyer. She is in her 30s and from Massachusetts, according to the Boston Globe...
...wonderful story about a woman (Mia Farrow, in a role no one else could have played) whose deadened upper-crust marriage threatens to crush her until she discovers the power of her imagination, courtesy of a mysterious doctor. Along the way, they are some psychedelic sequences involving invisibility and flying. The liberation of Farrows character is mostly handled with nimble comedy, but its also serious enough to prove that Allens movies arent hopelessly mired in misogyny...