Word: browbeaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better in Hastings' staging of When We Are Married, J.B. Priestley's satire of the Yorkshire bourgeoisie circa 1908. The premise: three long-married couples discover that their wedlock may not be legal and suddenly are able to reconsider, with the wisdom of hindsight, the choices of youth. Two browbeaten wives and one henpecked husband toy with ditching their spouses, a notion that is faintly feminist for its time. Fittingly, the best performances come from Fredi Olster and Joy Carlin as the resentful wives and the delightful Ruth Kobart as a domineering dragon. Randall Duk Kim has wit and charm...
...controversy leading to the censorship order began last August. While calling for a new trial for a defendant, Denver U.S. District Judge Fred Winner accused three Justice Department tax attorneys of "repeated excesses" in the course of the investigation, including having "browbeaten and ridiculed" one grand jury witness and "threatened" another. Following standard practice, the judge's ruling was published in paperbound form and was set for a hardcover edition by West Publishing Co., the private concern that issues volumes of federal and state court opinions. But the Government lawyers charged that Winner's opinion contained "defamatory...
...hero, Senya (Derek Jacobi), is an everyman-nobody. He has no job, is supported by his wife and browbeaten by her mother. He decides to kill himself...