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The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.
This was in sharp contrast to the stereotypical frat boys, who, in a time when the word "party" was exclusively a noun, would consume excessive amounts of alcohol as part of their recreational activities.
Where alternative country runs into trouble is its tendency to ignore what's durable about country in favor of its stereotypical hay-bales-and-whiskey-bottles shtick.
He/She/It is a dead ringer for the stereotypical Unsolved Mysteries alien--big baby eyes, bulging alien forehead, tiny ears, silver skin.
Although the book is described lightly as a tool-kit-- and indeed Mills's Summary lists questions through which a text can be analyzed for its representations of gender-- Feminist Stylistics is a complex, many-layered approach to reading that enables a reader to look beneath overt content in order to see hidden messages which, while often unrecognized by both writer and reader, nevertheless reinforce and help to legitimatize stereotypical notions about gender differences embedded in our culture.
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