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FILM
"Over the mysteries of female life there is a veil best left undisturbed." So declares a male teacher to his protégée in Gillian Armstrong's 1994 film, Little Women. In and out of context it's a great laugh line: funny for women who know it isn't true, and funny for men who know it is. And it tells us to some degree what Armstrong is up to in her film...
'Charlotte Gray': a Woman Unrevealed
By MELORA WOLFF"Over the mysteries of female life there is a veil best left undisturbed." So declares a male teacher to his protégée in Gillian Armstrong's 1994 film, Little Women. In and out of context it's a great laugh line: funny for women who know it isn't true, and funny for men who know it is. And it tells us to some degree what Armstrong is up to in her film...
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