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...Priss Choate, the women's squash coach, feels that Edge has not yet "reached her full potential. It helps [Diana] to play against men because they can push her," Choate said...
Another stubbornly ubiquitous villain, or maybe scapegoat--for whatever it reveals about Domini's private paranoias--is the executive woman. Sometimes her domain is T.V. production, but she masquerades too as a plant-store employee named Priss, striding into a narrator's office "all body," and telling him. "People like you marry people like me;" as the intense 17-year-old wife of the teenage narrator; even in one post-mortem fantasy, as a formless floating femine "blob" of a soul whose outer layer develops iron patches when her philosophizing outstrips the narrator's comprehension...
...Kathleen Widdoes) is the daughter of an industrialist, sexually "neuter" and Valedictorian. Libby (Jessica Walter) is a bitch who becomes a career woman in the publishing world. Polly (Shirly Knight) runs metabolism tests because the money ran out for her doctor's education, and keeps a delightfully insane father. Priss (Elizabeth Hartman) worked for NRA, then married and went through mental agonies over breast-feeding. Kay (Joanna Pettet), whose marriage begins the action of the story and whose death ends it, marries a failure who eventually beats her and nearly drives her insane--but she can't let The Group...
...story is livelier on the screen, and some scenes, like Kay's climactic fight with Harold, are far more effective here than in McCarthy's off-hand prose. You may not particularly care about Priss's breast-feeding, Libby's ambitions, or Dottie's frustrations. but somehow the movie takes you in, gives you a sense of the comedy, the gossip, and finally the tragedy of the group's lives. I don't know if the group' reaction to communism, psychoanalysis, and sex is typical of the 30's but it seems right in the movie. The Group...
...Libby, devoutly literary; Dottie, the only Bostonian at Vassar who is not identifiable by tweed; Helena, impeccably educated from birth by a cultivated clubwoman mother; Polly, whose father has gone "loony" after the crash of '29; Kay, beautiful and serious, most responsive to the conscience of The Group; Priss, hereditary Vassar, destined for social work; Pokey, rich and horsy; Lakey, "the Mona Lisa of the Smoking Room," who has everything. Rich, beautiful and haughty, Lakey has a taste in clothes, people and ideas that is absolute...