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...together with her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility. Clever girl. For writing this impeccable adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. For giving it a still, deep center with her delicately repressed (and then superbly released) performance in one of the title roles--she's "Sense," otherwise known as Elinor Dashwood. For defining in seven words the essence of romantic comedy. And for understanding that well over a century before it became a movie genre, Austen had mastered its most basic conventions...
Consider what dear Ms. Thompson's dear Miss Dashwood has to deal with. She is in unrequited love with Mr. Ferrars (Hugh Grant, marvelously blending probity and arrested development), who has foolishly promised himself to another. But of this misery she dare not speak, for other circumstances require that she be a brick: the death of her father and the loss of Norland, the stately digs where she and her all female family have been safe and content; the genteel but palpable anxiety of her mother (Gemma Jones), trying to be brave as poverty and spinsterhood loom for her girls...
...occurs at the very last moment, when, suddenly, Mr. Ferrars appears at the remote cottage, located just this side of destitution, where the Dashwood ladies have taken refuge. Miraculously he is free of his entanglements, free at last to diffidently declare his love for Elinor. Whereupon she bursts into tears--not just tears but great, teacup-rattling sobs, a huge, whooshing release of long-suppressed emotions, both hers and ours. You feel like crying right along with her. You feel like laughing too. Mostly, though, you feel terrific, in touch with something authentic inside yourself...
Died. Elizabeth Monica Dashwood ("E. M. Delafield"), 52, witty British novelist ; in Cullompton, Devonshire, England. Sharp-faced, French-blooded daughter of Welsh gentry, she wrote nearly a score of books before she brewed the slightly bitter tea talk of her best-selling Diary of a Provincial Lady and its three popular sequels...
...hounds are catalogued, the author finding in the music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful, Juno, Linda." Three of Music's puppies, the Cap'n happily named "Do, Re, and Mi." The author evinces an admirable...