Word: beene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Act IV. The state-run Crédit Agricole bank, acting as an interested go-between, buys up most of the Genvrain shares that had been offered to Perrier, and resells them in equal amounts to Perrier and Bel. Then, in a burst of amiability, the principals agree to share...
"The schoolmaster who imagines he is loved and trusted by his boys is, in fact, mimicked and laughed at behind his back," recalled George Orwell in Such, Such Were the Joys. James Hilton took the opposite view. The schoolmaster who thought himself mocked was actually loved. Orwell's essay...
In the recent past, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer has been notorious for the fustian message movie (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Ship of Fools). But in his adaptation of Robert Crichton's bestseller he has wisely opted for entertainment. As the boozy, scapegrace official, Quinn delivers a...
But after the masochist has been properly dissatisfied ("You're raping me," she cries during his listless love-making), the film plummets. Playing host to a series of grotesques, Joe loses an ill-played game of hostility to some erstwhile girl friends. The battle of the exes ranges from...
Charles meets Sarah Woodruff, a dark, intense governess who has been ostracized by the town for having a flagrant, fleeting affair with a French naval lieutenant. For Fowles, the unrepentant Sarah embodies the qualities that Victorian society tended to repress-passion and imagination. In the forbidden love that grows between...