Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cypress grove above the harbor, workmen labored long and lovingly on the task of refurbishing the tiny, neoclassic Chapel of Panayitsa (the Little Virgin). The centuries-old ritual was prescribed by Greek Orthodox tradition. The wedding ceremony called for the couple to walk around the altar three times; bride and groom traditionally try to be the first to step on the other's feet (the winner is then able to claim supremacy in the household). Man and wife are crowned with wreaths and drink from a cup of wine in order to symbolize the "harmony of soul and bodies." Everything...
...avoid this effect, and thus make the fall of the three all the more dramatic, Senelick is forced to mute the first act. Unfortunately Leantio, the merchant's clerk who loses his high-born bride on account of his stupid, Ben Franklin punctilliousness, has some of his best and most revealing lines in the opening moments: losing them destroys some of the irony so carefully worked into succeeding scenes. But as Kenny McBain went at the role rather gingerly throughout all of last night's performance, Leantio may be better served when he settles into the part...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. François Truffaut pays homage to Hitchcock in this sly and sometimes funny thriller about a widow (Jeanne Moreau) who sets out to avenge the murder of her husband...
Miami's Henry King Stanford: The demands on a university president are limitless. A man comes into the presidency like a bride: everybody's cheering him, the honeymoon is on. Then he reaches the burnt-toast stage in the romance as he has to make decisions and people become disaffected. Yet he can't run a university out of his hip pocket any more. He has to have a kind of radar, always sending out signals to see what bounces back...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. In his homage to Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut tells the story of a vengeful bride in a manner that mirrors the old master's style, as Jeanne Moreau tracks down a handful of murderers...