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...their business." She quit the church to prevent the action, but the elders read the announcement anyway, contending that she would remain a member until they expelled her. Last week Guinn's lawyer, Thomas Frasier, likened the church's action to the public branding of the adulteress Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Said Frasier of the Guinn-Sharp relationship: "He was a single man. She was a single lady. And this is America...
...Ellen festered into a major femme maudite, an alcoholic adulteress who both loves and hates her baby. Gray blossomed in the role, bringing it passion, grandeur and a touch of raunch. Through her soft, melodious voice, her carriage and her steely blue eyes, she suggested Sue Ellen's lifetime of good breeding and rude awakening, the lady whom J.R. forced to become a tramp. Says Gray: "I love the great broads of the world. I love Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. I love crying and letting the mascara run. I keep saying to the scriptwriters, 'Whatever...
...emergence to compare with Napoleon's journey out of Elban exile to try to regain France. Nor was it precisely the great soap opera of redemption that occurred in the mid-'50s when the American people decided that Ingrid Bergman, disgraced adulteress, might be restored to favor. But somewhere in the historic procession from the majestic to the trivial, one might plausibly place Richard Nixon's trip to Hyden, Ky., over the Fourth of July weekend...
...starts by passing around photos of his dead fiancee for general approbation. As a catalytic agent full of "power of positive thinking" jargon, he soon reduces everyone either to tears or to hysterics. With blithe incomprehension, he unmasks torpedoed marriages, a joyless adulteress (Dale Hodges), blasted careers, lace-curtain carnage...
...sober artistry marks The Doctor's Wife as vintage Brian Moore. Sheila Redden may not be as hauntingly memorable as the heroine of Moore's first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1956), but she is the most alluringly complex adulteress to come along in print in some time...