Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RAPTURE. A gloomy farmhousehold on the coast of Brittany harbors an escaped criminal (Dean Stockwell) who fulfills the various needs of an embittered ex-judge (Melvyn Douglas), his otherworldly daughter (Patricia Gozzi), and a bed-minded serving wench (Gunnel Lindblom). The tragic result is a triumph for English Director John Guillermin...
...time loser on the lam from the law; she was 16, a revival preacher's daughter looking for kicks...
...face. It was plain and rather round. But she had a famous figure, a nimble mind and charm. "To dominate others gave Mrs. Gardner such pleasure," a close associate later recalled, "that she must have regretted the passing of slavery." Actually, she was not a Bostonian but the daughter of a New Yorker who had made millions in importing and iron mining. At 17, she announced her ambition: "If I ever have any money of my own, I am going to build a palace and fill it with beautiful things." At 20, she married John L. Gardner...
Author Blankfort, who has a daughter and three grandchildren now living in Israel, has poured his heart into Behold the Fire, his eighth novel. His prose at times is hauntingly Biblical. His description of Jewish farmers battling a locust swarm is so vividly and sparely done that the reader can all but feel the crunch of the crawling vermin underfoot. And his protagonists, growing almost against their will to withstand stresses they never imagined, will not be easy to forget...
...celebration for the hotel outfit's newest aluminum and glass waterhole. He needs the cooperation of the aged and mysterious Prince Schatten, who runs a crumbling resort hotel on the border of East Berlin. The prince is guarded by a sinister doctor and his coldly beautiful blonde daughter. That is the start, but after that Novelist Morton, author of the bestselling biography The Rothschilds, does none of the things a novelist is supposed to do. He shapes no story, evokes no emotion, tells no joke, makes no trenchant comment, follows no fascinating or even plausible character. His hero...