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...also wrote each other a hundred letters in those months.”Wood proposed to Rossel when she came to visit him in Tanzania, and the two moved to Copenhagen after he completed his field work. They were married this August in Scandinavia at the estate of Karen Blixen, the author of the memoir “Out of Africa.”Wood was planning to move to Denmark permanently in January after finishing his last semester at Harvard and hoped to find a position at the University of Copenhagen, where Rossel held an assistant professorship...
...think the publisher should be aware of any small imperfection that may appear in it. I therefore take the occasion, in writing to you out of Africa, to say that your review of the new film Out of Africa [CINEMA, Dec. 16] is wrong in saying that Karen Blixen never mentions her husband in her book. She does, twice. Peter S. Bridges U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Mogadishu...
...best bets are films that might get Oscar nominations for costume design, like Titanic. This can be tricky, though, because it's hard to maintain holiday cheer when, say, Baroness von Blixen contracts syphilis in Out of Africa. Or when you come home from the war scenes in 1990's Havana and then watch Marines on the news spending Christmas in the Saudi desert before bombing Iraq. And Nixon, like Nixon, was kind of a bummer...
...trying again--I said I felt as I had that night at the Muthaiga Club when Karen Blixen told us the coffee plantation was finished; hadn't been the same since Denys died...
...desire are invariably so much more than that. They are multi-dimensional, interesting women who flaunt their own indentities and resist being typified as silent, passive, objects of male interest. One thinks of Debra Winger as Joy, C.S. Lewis' love interest in "Shadowlands," or Meryl Streep as Karen von Blixen in "Out of Africa." The same principle holds true in light romance, from Meg Ryan's idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic Sally of "Harry Met Sally" to Katherine Hepburn's fiery and yet vulnerable Tracey Lord opposite Cary Grant in "The Philadelphia Story...