Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer the same young girl who shared a sleeping bag with Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls back in 1943. "I've reached an age where I am starting a new career as a character actress," says Ingrid Bergman, now at work on her 43rd film. The movie, which will be titled A Matter of Time in English-speaking countries and Nina elsewhere, stars Bergman as an aged contessa and Liza Minnelli as a young hotel chambermaid enthralled by the older woman's reminiscences. Bergman, who still needs nearly an hour-long makeup job to affect...
...true letter," she wrote to Clive Bell in 1907, "should be as a film of wax pressed close to the graving in the mind." Virginia Woolf composed such letters by the thousands-quick, nervous jottings of the moment, full of teasing, deliberately haphazard and unliterary...
...think a great deal," she confessed to Clive Bell, "of how I shall re-form the novel and capture multitudes of things at present fugitive, enclose the whole, and shape infinite strange shapes...
...went to a dance last night," she wrote at 23, "and found a dim corner where I sat and read In Memoriam. You see I am not successful." It was only in the rarefied atmosphere of Bloomsbury that her formidable mind and odd beauty were appreciated. Men like Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry accepted her, flirted with her, and in some cases proposed. At one point she and the homosexual Strachey became engaged, but both came to realize their folly and amicably called...
...passions, platonic but deep, were saved for the older women in her life: her sister Vanessa, who became a painter and married Critic Clive Bell; Madge Vaughan, a writer who was married to one of Virginia's cousins; and above all Violet Dickinson, an aristocratic spinster who was part intimate confidante, part sponsor. With Dickinson especially, Virginia tended to lapse into repellent pet names and quasi-erotic baby talk ("I feel myself curled up snugly in old mother wallaby's pouch. Is mother wallaby soft and tender to her little one?"). But these women also inspired some...