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...Eastwood. He is the most reticent of directors -- where the book ogles, the film discreetly observes -- and, here, the courtliest of stars. The movie has a scene in which Francesca watches Robert wash himself. But Clint would never let the camera play over his body. Nor, as director, would he be anything but protective of Streep's corporal mortality. The two stars are past miming youth's sleek exertions. Why do it now? They didn't do it then...
...strained and tangled poses; the weird color, by turns opulent and acidly dry; the Biblical and classical allegories, recondite to the point of eccentricity. "A courtly art," observed Art Historian André Chastel, "always tends to develop a universe from which nature is absent"-and Mannerism was the courtliest and most artificial of styles. At Fontainebleau, the world of nature and the spontaneous passions was sublimated-in art as, one presumes, in life-into an elaborate system of symbols...
...Murphy read aloud, hour after hour, from State Department files. It was almost too much for theatrical, brush-browed Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker. Rolling a sympathetic eye toward the jury, he suggested that all the papers be put into evidence en masse-the defense, he said in his courtliest tones, would offer no objections at all if the Government wished to save time...
Some of the men & women the book deals with: the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough ("the courtliest man of his generation had married its most abusive virago"); Robert Walpole ("a great spoke in the Philistine wheel and a heavy stone in the capitalist edifice"); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ("her personality, though it had its inconveniences while she lived, is exactly the sort that is welcomed in the dead"); John Wesley (who "was that fascinating type of fanatic-the 'rational' one ... 'I think,' said his father of him as a boy, 'I think our Jack would...
...When he became an international celebrity at Wimbledon two years ago, Donald Budge's sophistication was such that he cheerily waved his racket at Queen Mary in the royal box. Gottfried von Cramm, who put Budge out in the semi-finals that year, greeted the Queen with the courtliest...
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