Word: womanned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know this junior woman who lives over in Lowell House. The real jock type--you know, she's played varsity hoop, soccer and ran track. Yeah, she pretends to be an academic. You know, a Fine Arts major (though she says she's writing a thesis next year...
...runs 18 miles, the most she'd ever run; and then she goes out to Lowell Sunday. She needs a 3:30.00 to qualify for the Boston race (yes, that's hours). So what does she do? The nervy kid runs a 3:11.30, finishes as the first woman, qualifies--the whole shot, and she'd never run more than 18 miles before the race...
...miles--big deal. After all, she finished 217th out of 800 runners, even if she was the first woman to cross the tape. She's still the same person. She said the last few miles were tough. "They didn't go past as swiftly as I wanted them to," she says. Her legs are a little sore. Her mom was thrilled. So was she. And now she can fulfill her dream--running in the Boston Marathon...
...Gabriel Zampa, an eccentric sculptor builds three Watts-like towers jutting out of the tan wasteland, "Cause eve'yt'ing aroun' was gettin' ugly." The city orders them demolished, but Tabor argues that they are works of art. Craftily, the city hires Ellen Trask, a woman whose credentials are even more formidable than Tabor's, and with the ceremony of gunfighters, the two legal amazons go at it. Tabor wins, but neither she nor the towers are safe from predators. In the end she is pregnant and jobless, but Kluger makes sure that...
...enough being an older woman in our society without being damned by the faint praise of this entirely fatuous, Canadian-made, soft-core film. Based on a novel by Stephen Vizinczey, it traces the romantic career of a youth (Tom Berenger) from his teen-age sexual initiation (by Karen Black, who betrays a certain nervousness in this comedown role) through various tedious amatory escapades with a number of older women. Some of them, despite the title and the falteringly worldly tone of the picture, actually treat him quite badly. This seems only fair, since he is himself either callous...