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...mark the passing of years: a clunky effort to move the story forward. The absence of narrative punch is compounded by a paucity of interesting characters. Brick Lane seems to be populated entirely by clichés, one-dimensional people taken straight from a textbook of Indo-Anglian Lit. Nazneen is docile and, until the final few pages, dutiful, never speaking her mind, never standing up to her weakling of a husband. Chanu is the stereotypical first-generation Asian immigrant, holding on to fantasies of his native land's historic glories so he can feel superior to the people...
...film's audience. For director Gyllenhaal has worked some striking variations on standard flashback technique, visual bestartlements that fling us, edgy and disconcerted, from 1974 Pittsburgh, where the film's framing action takes place, to England in the wartime '40s. There, in the Fens, the ; East Anglian coastal marshlands that provide the film's title, the young Tom and Mary (Grant Warnock and Lena Headey) fall in love...
...psalters, hymnals and apocalypses gathered here attest to the sturdiness and independence of English artists' imaginations. They are a perfect visual equivalent to Chaucer, who installed English as a literary language in 1387 with The Canterbury Tales. The East Anglian manuscript style especially, in its whimsicality and odd narratives, its overflowing, obsessive love of natural forms -- leaves, flowers, birds, animals, combining and recombining -- is quite unlike the traditional formalities of French Gothic painting. It is both more earthy and more fantasticated. Some of it looks forward to the nature worship of the Romantics, centuries later. Some predicts writers like Edward...
...good week for Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, 47, Deputy Colonel in Chief of the Royal Anglian Regiment, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Highland Fusiliers and, among other things, president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Suffering from flu, the princess lay ill abed at Windsor Castle, where the royal family had assembled for an extended Easter holiday. There, according to well-placed reports, Queen Elizabeth II had a serious talk with her younger sister about Margaret's swinging lifestyle. Reason: the princess's reputation, as well as her health, was ailing. Not only...
JOHN LARTER and Marta Doherty were both 19, she living in the Catholic Bogside section of Londonderry, he a private in the Royal Anglian Regiment, which arrived in Ulster almost two years ago to keep the peace. They met last March and got engaged in April, and John agreed to become a Catholic. Last May, while they were out walking, three gunmen of the Irish Republican Army stopped them and shot John in the hand. "Marta went to help him," John's stepfather said later. "But for her, he would have been killed. It proved to him that...