Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME to Bed...
...Alfonso appeared to realize that the Monarchist parties in Spain were hopelessly split among themselves and afforded no leader who could keep the new Cortes subservient to the Crown. Promptly His Majesty called off the elections he had ordered, called upon Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer (who was still in bed with eczema of the foot) and obtained the cabinet's resignation. Then began the frantic canvass of politicians, the procession of truculent greybeards, through the Royal Palace, men who have been like deflated toy balloons under the Dictatorship, but are now distended again by the breath of power...
...five scenes are laid in Elizabeth's bed-sitting-room where she has languished for years under her father's tyrannous love. It is here that Browning begins his deliberate and life-giving lovemaking, here that Father Barrett breaks each of his children one by one, here that Elizabeth becomes aware of her parent's mad, incestuous devotion to her. From this room she leaves 50 Wimpole Street forever, goes off to Browning and Italy...
...arrival of the police. Here again is a trite situation, which becomes significant through deft and sympathetic handling. Nor is the movie without humor; a fight scene which might well have been heavy and conventional is a delightful parody. Most French, if not most effective, was the bed-room sequence, which the director handles with his tongue in his cheek...
...considerable section has been cut away from the hill which lies between the southeast corner of Widener Library making a jagged escarpment more than a dozen feet high through the bed rock. This will be levelled off and steps or terraces planted with shrubbery will be constructed. It is hoped that these operations will be completed, and the ground covered with grass at the time of occupation of the new dormitories...