She's very much like a high, super, superglamorous Stepford Wife.
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Bennett gives an arresting, calibrated performance, playing Hunter as a modern Stepford wife.
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"She's very much like a high, super, superglamorous Stepford Wife," he told me.
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Chuck (Paul Giamatti) is acting like a Stepford Wife to get back in her good graces, and failing.
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Again and again, we see Ms. Paulos's dazed, Stepford-wife expression and the sight of Mr. Monteiro running in place.
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"I'm never going to be that person that tries to play off like I'm some kind of Stepford wife," she says.
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She was a male pirate in Hook, a commander in Guardians of the Galaxy, and a Stepford Wife long before The Wife.
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Tired of taking care of someone else's baby and reluctant to become another sanitized Stepford wife, Megan yearns to start her life over again.
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Her eyes glassy behind a gleaming Stepford wife smile, she tosses off Sun Tzu references in the same breath that she discusses child care plans.
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The "Stepford Wife" trope is a Western one, but it's interesting (and disconcerting) to see the different ways in which culture and tradition are distilled into patriarchal norms.
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Everything I'd panicked about pre-Botox — facial paralysis, not being able to show surprise, my friends turning on me because I looked like Stepford wife — well, none of that happened.
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Lacie's need for external approval has left her with some pretty insufferable quirks: the Stepford Wife voice she does in casual conversation, the ear-piercing screeching sound she uses to feign enthusiasm.
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Ruth's nerves are already frayed from a previous run-in with teenage daughter Jane (a wonderful Cailee Spaeny), who basically calls her a Stepford wife sellout for not letting her go to a Gloria Steinem rally.
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Olivia plays the perfect hostess, detailing the evening's crepe-cake dessert with the charming grace of a Stepford Wife (to be fair, she honed that skill during her brief stint as the de facto first lady).
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Working from a script by Noah Oppenheim, Chilean director Pablo Larraín meticulously replicates scenes from the TV special "A Tour of the White House," which helped foster an image of the model-pretty Jackie as the ultimate Stepford wife.
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As the evil, racist Velma Von Tussle, whom she played like a Stepford wife after five Red Bulls, Chenoweth served up some insane vocals, and her crack comedic timing was spot-on — at least until Velma's bigotry stopped the character from being funny.
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" When I asked people who worked for McMaster if it was difficult to engage in a deliberative policy process when Trump might embrace a radically different course in one of his predawn tantrums, they reminded me, with the frozen smile of a Stepford wife, that "different Presidents communicate in different ways.
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Then, a few months ago, I made a decision I'd been fighting for years, mostly out of the unfounded fear that I'd turn into a Stepford wife and lose my signature sardonic Daria-ness in the process: I went on the anti-depressant Wellbutrin, for reasons at the time that were unrelated.
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It matters because there's no winning for women: You're either a prude or a slut, a feminist man-hater or a Stepford wife, with no grey area, with an entire world — and now, a presidential candidate — whispering that the most you will ever be is a womb or a pair of tits and legs.
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As Kate instructed Bianca, "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign," she smiled a Stepford wife smile, but her eyes were wide and anxious; she kept darting terrified glances at Petruchio to make sure she was saying what she was supposed to so that he wouldn't hurt her again.
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Ultimately, still photos depict a smiling Walter driving the family car, picking up his new "Stepford Wife" from the supermarket with their children in the backseat.
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In the story's epilogue, Joanna has become another Stepford wife gliding through the local supermarket, having given up her career as a photographer, while Ruthanne (a new resident in Stepford) appears poised to become the conspiracy's next victim.
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The term "Stepford wife" entered common use in the English language after the publication of Levin's book and it is generally used as a derogatory term which refers to a submissive and docile wife who seems to conform blindly to the stereotype of an old-fashioned subservient role in relationship to her husband.
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'" Michael Pascua of The Huffington Post disliked Stevens' wig, writing: "Izzie's wig looked horrible. She looked exactly like her mother Robbie and that's not a compliment. I loved Cristina's Stepford wife joke and how everyone, including Derek, couldn't help but stare at her hair. Yet, no one had the balls to tell her it was bad.
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This begins to deepen the question of how this nerdy computer technician with ordinary looks and no social skills could have married such a beautiful woman who seems happily content as a sort of Stepford Wife male fantasy, the perfect virgin/whore who submissively cleans his ears but surprises him one night in a Naughty Nurse outfit and then plays it out.
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Travolta introduces Cruise to his third wife Katie Holmes (Laura Patch) who is depicted as a robotic Stepford Wife. "Greetings, Earth Man, I am here to serve you," says Holmes to Cruise upon their first meeting. After Cruise asks Holmes to marry him, she states, "Affirmative". The show makes fun of Cruise's couch jumping incident on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Overcome, she later recovers and the two women knock out Andy. Kaye, now disguised as a Stepford wife, enlists the aide of Wally to help them escape; he betrays them, but having anticipated this, Kaye manages to elude him. However, their plan to escape by train fails, and Megan is taken to the Men's Association for reconditioning. Eventually, Kaye arrives and holds Diz at gunpoint while Megan repeatedly sounds the pill siren.
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Bobbie says that she is a whole new person and the most important thing is her cookbook. While telling Joanna that she can help her change, Bobbie puts her hand over the stove's burner and does not even notice. Joanna wants to leave and calls the camp for her kids, but she finds out that they were taken by Walter. She goes back to the Men's Association and finds that in her family picture, she now looks like a Stepford wife.
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In October 2019, the Huffpost broke a story about a training seminar purportedly to empower female employees, which was actually dishing out 1950s style advice. Women were told to concentrate on their appearance, not to show too much skin, and not to speak too much. One participant said it was basically a "women bashing" exercise. "You have to offer your thoughts in a benign way...You have to be the perfect Stepford wife... It felt like they were being turned into someone who is super-smiley, who never confronts anyone" she said.
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Feeling that North Carolina voters needed an alternative to the two party duopoly, Munger ran as a Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 2008. Early in the year, Munger said that Democratic gubernatorial challenger Bev Perdue was a "Stepford Wife" and the Republican nominees were "circus clowns." Prior to May 2008, the North Carolina Libertarian Party and Munger gathered 100,000 signatures of voters in order to qualify to appear on North Carolina's ballot. They, along with the Green Party, sued the state unsuccessfully over the ballot access rules.
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Kate Kroll of Rolling Stone gave a negative review for Chisholm's performance, saying that "Her voice sounded thin, and she just can't seem to shake that Stepford Wife stare." Emeli Sandé and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra recorded a cover of the song which was included on The Great Gatsby soundtrack (2013). Upon hearing a preview of the song, Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times commented that the cover was the best song on the album sang with a "surprising, simmering urgency". Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly also wrote that the swing cover of "Crazy in Love" was one of the highlights on the album.
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Among the loosely connected imagery of the lyrics, Footman identified the song's subject as "the materially comfortable, morally empty embodiment of modern, Western humanity, half- salaryman, half-Stepford Wife, destined for the metaphorical farrowing crate, propped up on Prozac, Viagra and anything else his insurance plan can cover." Sam Steele called the lyrics "a stream of received imagery: scraps of media information, interspersed with lifestyle ad slogans and private prayers for a healthier existence. It is the hum of a world buzzing with words, one of the messages seeming to be that we live in such a synthetic universe we have grown unable to detect reality from artifice." "Electioneering", featuring a cowbell and a distorted guitar solo, is the album's most rock-oriented track and one of the heaviest songs Radiohead has recorded.
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It grossed $4 million at the United States box office, though it received mixed reviews from critics. Reaction from feminist activists and writers was extremely divided at the time of its release, with Betty Friedan deeming it a "rip-off of the women's movement" and discouraging women from seeing it, though others such as Gael Greene and Eleanor Perry defended the film. While the film was a moderate success at the time of release, it has grown in stature as a cult film over the years. Building upon the reputation of Levin's novel, the term "Stepford" or "Stepford wife" has become a popular science fiction concept and several sequels were shot, as well as a 2004 remake using the same title, but rewritten as a comedy instead of a serious horror/thriller film.
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