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Movies That Chill To the Bone
While chopping chili peppers for a great Asian slaw recipe, I got drawn into watching Picnic, the 1955 movie based on William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize winning play. Rosalind Russell’s character is a middle-aged school teacher, whose identity is glued to her being an old maid. Though the movie is dated and clearly from a bygone era, watching this scene still makes me cringe.
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Whoa – this clip is devastating. Hard to believe the intensity of social pressure on single women in the not-so-recent past. I’ve been following your blog for a while and really like your attitude towards being single. I just started my own blog and happened to put up a video that kinda relates to this just today – http://thesinglesadvocate.blogspot.com/2011/07/single-possibilities-in-1800s-england.html