Word: donning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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If the experts have their way, the nuclear family can be further strengthened in the future. Margaret Mead, for example, believes that many bad starts can be avoided if marriages can be postponed. She proposes a kind of universal national service that will take adolescents out of the nuclear home...
HOMER is a well-intentioned film about a young man's growing intolerance for his parents, his home town and his life in Middle America. Too often the script is predictable, the situations pure pasteboard. But Director John Trent has a subtle feeling for the nuances of small-town...
Dickens was the first poet of the modern industrial city: he saw it not only as a milieu but as a destiny. The characters he propelled through it were both its living parts and the fuel it consumed. Their hugeness, their stylization, their compulsive verbalizing are all in part a...
"DON'T FALL OFF THE MOUNTAIN" by Shirley MacLaine. 270 pages. Norton $5.95.
For years Shirley MacLaine has starred in a series of hectic comedies and adventures, often playing the heart-of-gold hooker (Irma La Douce, Two Mules for Sister Sara). Now, in a jaunty memoir, she puts forth the proposition that her own life has really been a lot more interesting...