Word: dorset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From his 180-year-old house high on a bluff in Lyme Regis, Dorset, John Fowles can look down to a curving stone jetty called the Cobb. Two years ago, he had a vision of a woman in a long Victorian skirt standing there with her back to him. It was the basis for the opening scene of The French Lieutenant's Woman and, says Fowles, "the tiny seed from which the whole book started. It was just an image that came to me in a "hypnagogic state between 'waking and sleeping...
SURPRISE! is a farce by Fred Carmichael, producer-director of the Caravan Theater at the Dorset, Vt., Playhouse, where his latest effort will appear...
...makes the world of three kooky characters go round in Gilbertsville, Ky., Aug. 6-23; Southbury, Conn., Aug. 19-23; Dorset, Vt., Aug. 20-24 and Kingston, R.I., on dates between...
...subjects of Miss Murdoch's examination are met at a charming summer house in Dorset by the sea. The house belongs to Octavian, a fat, well-placed government official who loves his wife Kate (despite an occasional lapse involving his secretary), and cheerfully allows her to take in a widow with son, a divorcee with twins, a Dachau survivor and Latinist, and Octavian's brother, a failed India hand. The couple's dear friend, John Ducane, is a constant visitor, a wealthy bachelor lawyer who is so far gone in his infatuation for Kate that stolen kisses...
...again hauls out his Darling trick of beginning the dialogue of the next scene while still presenting a first one. No scene is presented at any great length, except the the key one in which Stamp wins Miss Christie with a flashing display of sword exercises on a sweeping Dorset Hill...