Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legally bound to observe a pretense of objective journalism, the Quarterly, happily, has no such obligations. Contrary to the claims of the letter-writers, the Quarterly has in the past featured articles by anti-choice activists. It is thrilling, now, however, to see the Quarterly take a feminist stand in the face of protest from some of its readers...
...they achieve an emotional bond -- a standard for hospital melodrama -- but in reveries rather than everyday contact. The patient becomes a stand-in for the nurse's dead mother; the nurse is transformed into the patient's long-lost sister, then an estranged daughter. The little dramas of hospital routine thus become freighted with the burdens of decades. Trivial exchanges achieve the dimensions of catharsis. Puig deftly interweaves other themes, including the oppression of all women under Latin machismo and the extent to which South Americans may still defensively see theirs as a colonial culture...
...habit of discontent has been the engine driving their lives. And the only thing left to be discontented about is contentedness. Suddenly Barbara can't stand the way Oliver chews his food. Or his insistence on correcting the details when she tries to tell dinner-party stories. When he suffers what at first looks like a heart attack -- it turns out to be a hiatal hernia -- she cannot quite make it to the emergency room to fake anxiety and sympathy. That night, she proposes separation...
Still, a hulking hot-dog stand is often a lesser evil than what some developers want to put in its place. When a new mini-mall threatened to replace the Minuteman Carwash in Los Angeles, a 1960 building sporting a boomerang-shape decoration on its roof, neighborhood residents petitioned the Cultural Heritage Commission of Los Angeles to declare it a landmark. The ploy failed, but the case attracted the attention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the largest preservation organization in the U.S. Says trust spokeswoman Courtney Damkroger: "If something like this gas station is designated a landmark locally...
...series, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil went gleefully over the top, pitying or despising all its characters. But comedy on the American plan can go soft, as Barr proved when she gave her abrasive stand-up-comic persona a sweetie-pie makeover for her hit TV show. She-Devil does the same to Weldon, without substituting much style or attitude. The movie is its own sitcom pilot, and only Streep watchers will be laughing...