On the one hand, that implies giving the wives of self-employed workers who play a part in the family business a stable status and, on the other hand, recognising the economic and social role of the mother.
The second wife of the self-styled Brother Leader is in her 50s and mother to seven of his eight biological children.
After their three less than convincing films together, it was fortunate that their credibility as performers was soon brilliantly restored by Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
Haruki Murakami's 1995 metaphysical thriller, in which a man loses his cat, his wife and his sense of self, is lightly written but incisive, slipping mysteriously from a drama of domestic life to an existential dilemma: it begins tightly focused and goes on to fracture infinitely.
What if I shoot one more scene, to make him not leave his wife, but kill his wife?" These fusillades of self-criticism, you sense, aren't false modesty, nor real terror, but something else: the musings of a veteran who has long since come to terms with the fact that his creative process will always be a long slide into disillusionment.
While some of the women seemed to have grandiose notions of themselves — one insisted on being called "the countess" since she was a model-turned-fourth-wife-of-a-count — Ms. Frankel was self-deprecating.
The "folks" in question are white people, and, like "A Different Drummer," the novel focusses on a white character: Mitchell Pierce, a middling employee at an advertising agency, who grows increasingly estranged from, among other things, his job, his pregnant wife, his sense of self-worth, and reality.
Kind of self explanitory.
"Choosing their own wife is a form of self-assertion, a way of exploring their manhood and of experiencing true love," says Mr Oto.
And "Basketball Wife" achieves a sense of self-contained comic menace with a torsolike bottle form made of black webbing stuffed with paper and foil that rests on a small, round orange rug, whose curving black lines denote a basketball.
