Word: aristocratically
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...Denys Finch Hatton, aristocrat, aviator and athlete, war hero and white hunter. She is, when we meet her, Isak Dinesen, storyteller. But before that she was Baroness Karen Blixen, who in 1913-14 exchanged family money for a title, a farm in Kenya and the 17 years of experience that, distilled to its essence, would form the basis for one of this century's truly singular literary compositions, Out of Africa...
...great nature. Then, just when she thinks she has grasped him, he slips away into the clouds. Meryl Streep, as Dinesen, is his perfect match. Always at her best when challenged to leave her own time and place for regions more passionate and generous, Streep embodies an aristocrat's arrogance toward the unknown and an artist's vulnerability to it. They play against each other warily and discreetly, often content to let their silences, and the flow of the movie itself, speak for them...
...bleakest of Swedes did, in fact, think of women as "whores," including his three wives. In brilliant but vitriolic plays like Miss Julie (an aristocrat lusts after her servant) and Creditors (hell in the shape of a triangle), Strindberg practices his own advice to other authors on the treatment of female characters: "Accuse them, blacken them; abuse them so that they haven't a clean spot--that is dramatic!" His second wife, Frida, an Austrian journalist, compared marriage to Strindberg to "a death ride over crackling ice and bottomless depths." There is little evidence that his first wife, Siri...
GIANT (Orson Welles), the longish tale of the fading Texas aristocrat, played by the Rock Hudson (hoid o' him?), and the messed-up poor kid who slips on oil to become the messed-up rich kid. The one rising swiftly up, the second slipping pathetically down, the once and future giants both are desperately seeking the same Elizabeth Taylor. His last film, Giant whispers the tragedy of Dean's death more painfully than any possible obituary...
...once lost to Puccio. "There is a saying that 'litigation is more perspiration than inspiration.' He excels at perspiration." Puccio and his four-member defense team began sweating over the Von Bulow case in late 1984. Earlier that year the Rhode Island Supreme Court had reversed the Danish-born aristocrat's 1982 conviction on charges that he twice tried to kill his socialite wife Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow with insulin injections; since 1980 she has lain in a coma from which she is expected not to recover. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz had argued the successful appeal. Now the ball...