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Show Mfc .'j MBHr-Mai mi mii i Page B4 Thursday, September 1 1, 1986 Park Record Myth of women's liberation is exposed in Hewlett's novel Hewlett, Sylvia Ann, "A Lesser Life; the Myth of Women's Liberation." Libera-tion." William Morrow, 1986. By EMILY MULLER Record contributing writer Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" helped awaken women to the overt discrimination existing against them in the workplace, and helped to give many of them a new feeling of self-worth and importance. impor-tance. Sylvia Ann Hewlett has written writ-ten what may well turn out to be the new guide for the women's movement move-ment of the 80's and 90's. Her book traces the history of the women's liberation movement from its early beginnings in America through the cult of the super-woman who feels she has to over-achieve at home and at work. She reminds us working mothers have always had to bear a disproportionate share of work at home as well as try to do their best at work. The cult of motherhood, which is now enjoying a renaissance, has roots in a culture which no longer exists. ex-ists. Only 6 percent of American homes today conform to the traditional tradi-tional picture of the father working as sole support of the family and mother taking care of the children and housekeeping. In 1960, only 5.7 million women with children had jobs outside the home. Today, 12.8 million work. In 1983, children from households headed by single women constituted almost a quarter of the entire population of children, and a high percentage do not receive child support from their fathers. Between the Covers Sixty percent of divorced women are single parents. Inadequate and expensive child care arrangements impose severe restraints on the kinds of employment such women can accept. More single women live beneath the poverty level than ever before, and most women are in worse economic shape than their mothers were. Their earning power has decreased as certain categories of jobs have become feminized and bring lower pay as a result. In addition, addi-tion, women's careers are stopped in the early years to take time out for childbearing and rearing. This interruption inter-ruption limits their opportunities for advancement in the work force. The author observes that the National Na-tional Organization for Women (N.O.W.) had an elite constituency and a liberal agenda. Its members wanted equal educational and job opportunities, equal pay and abolition aboli-tion of all legislation which discriminated against women. The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated by the huge numbers of women who felt that it and the new feminism would take away all their hard-won rights for alimony and child support, leaving them unprotected. un-protected. Hewlett contends , "the problems of contemporary American women are not the result of some massive or inevitable conflict between work and family life. Rather, they result because the U.S. does less than any other advanced country to make life easier for working mothers." Working Work-ing women in the U.S., from sales clerks to corporate executives, earn only 64 percent of men's wages, which is one of the largest wage gaps between males and females in the industrialized in-dustrialized world. European social feminists have approached their problems differently. dif-ferently. They are far ahead in procuring pro-curing such workplace benefits as maternity leave and subsidized child care facilities. It is time for working mothers to put away their guilt feelings about working outside the home. Studies show children of working mothers do better socially and academically. But, unless business, employers, federal, state and local governments, govern-ments, and most importantly, women themselves, face the issue of the imperative need for adequate maternity leave with rigorous job-back job-back guarantees and adequate, conveniently-located, subsidized day care facilities, women can never expect to achieve equality of opportunity oppor-tunity in the work force. This book gives us a more realistic picture of women's place in late 20th Century society than either the militant mili-tant feminists or the Reagan administration ad-ministration and should provide thoughtful reading for anyone interested in-terested in women's issues. V V't 1 I, f fc. imrmr JL IE J Nicholas Howe, left, and Alan Cox attempt to stop the hallucinating Freddie Jones during a mysterious seizure in "Young Sherlock Holmes." Actors are believable as young Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson Video Views ZSftZZf Sneakers Fall "Activities" Fall Weekly Calendar Mnndav Men's Night, Featuring Monday Night Football includes Happy Hour Prices,, Tuesday Ladies Night Oct. 14 is Sneakers Fail Fashion Extravaganza with professional models and live entertainment - - - -- Wednesday Gossip Night Thursday We have guest bartenders . " Friday BBQ nlghtj 24 oz, T-bone steak, salad & sourdough $14,95. Saturday Saturday night live with live entertainment and dancing. Sunday Morning after brunch, : Don't miss Wyoming Downs Bus Trip. Race Day is Sat., Sept. 20th 649-7742 for the benefit of members and guests Young Sherlock Holmes It's gratifying in "Young Sherlock Holmes" to see that the young actors could believably grow into the famous characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. Nicholas Rowe as young Holmes has the air of cold intellect and vague loneliness. And Alan Cox as Watson has a weary, resigned look that already suggests a middle-aged man. The film, written by Chris Columbus Colum-bus and Barry Levinson, wonders what would have happened if the two had met as youths in boarding school. Holmes is a shrewd young man, but a little shakey on the violin and with his deductions. As Inspector Inspec-tor Lestrade reminds him, he was wrong when he suspected the French ambassador was embezzling money. It was the Russian ambassador. am-bassador. Watson wants to be a doctor and has a weakness for French pastry. Holmes is beginning to acquire his trademarks, like the deerstalker cap and pipe. But he is primarily occupied oc-cupied with a rash of mysterious suicides which are not suicides at all. A cloaked figure with a blowgun is , shooting Londoners pwith a hallucinogenic drug. The resulting delusions drive them to jump out of windows or throw themselves under carriages. One victim is Holmes' teacher and the uncle of his young love, Elizabeth (Sophie Ward). Holmes traces the attacks to an Eastern cult and its mysterious temple, tem-ple, which takes the movie back to Indiana Jones country and exposes the influence of producer Steven Spielberg. The drug-induced delusions seen by the victims tiny gargoyles and monster hat racks also are an opportunity op-portunity for the special effects house, Industrial Light and Magic, to show its stuff. The movie, however, doesn't lose the Holmes touch. The eerie Vic torian atmosphere can accommodate accom-modate the strange and supernatural super-natural and the fear of the exotic East. "Young Sherlock" is a charming, charm-ing, fast-moving thriller though you won't need Holmes' deductive powers to spot the villains before they are revealed. One important note: Don't leave the theater before the credits are over or you'll miss one of the key points of the movie. RB Out of Africa "Out of Africa" may succeed more than any other film in giving a romantic aura to the equatorial Dark Continent. Sydney Pollack's sweeping direction and David Watkins' photography make it a land of great mountains, quietly gripping green fields, savagebeautiful animals and native chants floating over the night air. Meryl Streep's performance doesn't so much dominate this land as guide us through it. She plays Karen Blixen, who marries a Danish nobleman (Klaus Maria Brandauer) out of convenience and settles with him at his estate in Kenya. In her experiences which she wrote about later under her pseudonym, Isak Dinesen she finds peace, beauty, terror and struggle in the land. Streep is a good reflection of all those moods. She is a woman of both plaintive needs and strong will. A recommendation for the picture, however, has to be qualified. This is a movie with a languid romantic mood. It has a dreaminess that isn't for everyone, but I liked it. A major problem here, however, is with Robert Redford as adventurer adven-turer Denys Finch Hatton, who pops in and out of Karen's life through the years, and eventually becomes her lover. Redford doesn't adopt a British accent and is nothing more than his movie persona presentably handsome, hand-some, well-spoken, noble and passionate. pas-sionate. When Streep goes on a dream safari with Redford, the picture pic-ture looks like a modern woman's fantasy of a trek with a movie idol. Dinesen's vision is still there, but it is diluted. Redford has his moments like a nice drunk scene in which his normally nor-mally self-assured character seems to be on slippery ground but mostly he doesn't hold up his end of the picture. pic-ture. German actor Klaus Maria Brandauer Bran-dauer is more of a match for Streep, as the husband who ignores her and fools around with other women. He is so equatable in his irresponsibility, irresponsibili-ty, however, that the two manage to maintain a lukewarm relationship even while their marriage disintegrates. Also compelling is the bond of friendship and loyalty between Streep and the African tribe that lives on her estate. The picture has a problem with its length and it tends to underline its points too much. When Streep leaves Africa, the tender farewells seem to linger forever. Pollack's romantic epic will linger longer, though, in the memory. RB A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only i i "" ' 1 jv ... , . l"'"""r 1 1 '' ' 1 1 1111 1 1 Becomme a pant off Advertising Space & Copy Deadline Oct 3 Support Local Business Keep your dollars circulating in Park City ' r) v. - PARK CITY j if - 'TZu .5 "J 1 |