Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Wilde-Douglas episode, Beardsley gradually made a comeback, but his career and life were tottering toward an end. He still drew by candlelight in a darkened room, working furiously because he knew that he was doomed by his lungs. He moved from London to the softer climate of Dieppe and finally to the French Riviera. His sister had become a Roman Catholic, and Beardsley, in terror of death, soon followed. In a last letter, written in "my death agony," he begged his publisher to destroy all his "obscene drawings," particularly his series on Lysistrata, but the letter...
...meet the last man on earth-an aged Adam, too feeble to father children. His prize possession is a windup Gramophone with one record, Roll Out the Barrel, a toy the girls covet. At his dwelling-the abandoned Hotel Ozone-the old lady enjoys one final, dreamlike dinner by candlelight. Then she dies, knowing that the race will die with her and with the girls she has overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down like an animal...
...young at heart, Spring Weekend 1967 promises unlimited fun and festivities. In addition to banquets which range from barbecues to candlelight dinners and entertainment which is equally varied, each House is throwing a gala dance with top name entertainers...
...explosion by appearing topless in 1950's Caroline Chérie, went on to make nearly 40 films, a few good (Lola Moniés), a lot more bad, but every one displaying Martine, usually in a bath, be it bubble, champagne or Roman, by daylight, moonlight or candlelight, all of which made her one of France's highest paid stars until Brigitte and the other girls took over the tub in the late 1950s; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo...
Seldom in these days of coast-to-coast screens and retina-wrecking color is a play so tastefully transformed into a film. Scene after scene is played in sober old Tudor houses glozed by candlelight, or by the warm green verges of the New Forest. The costumes are rich, not gaudy, and the actors are borne lightly on the lucid stream of language that flows throughout the film. Even more mesmerically than he did in the play, Paul Scofield pulls all eyes toward himself by the abundance and subtlety of what seems to be happening inside him. Seen close...