A Gift for His Wife: A Bored Housewives Story

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A French ballerina (Leslie Caron) in 1944 London falls for an American soldier (John Kerr) who is sent to France in the Normandy Invasion. A top Hollywood talent agent's cushy existence is threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that a reporter has swiped his journal to bring him down.

There are also policies on Craigslist and users can be reported if they are caught breaking the rules. Post45 is a collective of scholars working on American literature and culture since 1945. The group was founded in 2006 and has met annually since to discuss new work in the field. Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one--the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther ... See full summary» Although cinephiles think of Jeanne as an archetypal housewife, as a widow she is, strictly speaking, not a housewife at all. She is, rather, a house-wife: married, in effect, to her home, absorbed in the domestic space which she looks after so dutifully. Yet if her housekeeping is a labor of love, it is a non-reciprocal romance. The effect of making Jeanne a widow is to reduce her to her labor functions while isolating her. As prostitute, she plays the role of "wife," responsible for male sexual gratification in addition to cooking and cleaning. Although her son is well into his teenage years, she occasionally looks after a neighbor's howling infant. Thus, in her small flat, she undergoes every familiar trial of housewifery.

Sex sells and always has, but at times like these there are more women, and of a broader range, who are offering to partake for a given fee." Anyone reading these books today would feel what’s the big deal. People do have feelings for one another even after they are married and do act on it. But the point to remember is the stories were set in the pre-liberalisation India, and the Bengali bhadralok audience wouldn’t have been ready for a ‘bold’ end. But Debashish does not pursue Trina as both are married and have children of their own. As Debashish puts it, “It would have been wonderful if we’d met at the right age and at the right time.”

These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, in Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, translated by Una Ellis-Fermor (London: Penguin, 1961), 263. All further references come from this edition and will be given parenthetically in the text. [ ⤒]

A financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss. Jeanne Dielmanrecalls Picasso's Cubism in its discovery of infinite complexity within a mundane bourgeois interior, its reliance on still-life compositions of objects on a table, and the rewards it offers to sustained looking. Unlike Picasso, however, the film commits itself to the bare representation of reality. There are no montages or zoom shots or expressionist bursts of color; any disclosure of personality is conveyed through external objects alone. We infer Jeanne's dissatisfaction, for example, when she makes coffee, tastes it, pours it out, grinds beans for a new batch, and then watches the coffee seep slowly through the hourglass-shaped filter in one of the film's most poignant images of time passing. 11 A Witney man who admitted to trying to procure women for explicit exchanges online, said he had noticed a sharp increase in the amount of adverts offering sex for sale. A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.