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Some weeks ago, during the very particular and graceful lull of an English Sunday afternoon, two American travelers stopped by a pub in the village of Blandford, Dorset. The air was thick with Player's smoke and jollity, the sound of gentle joking, the slide and click of coins across the worn wood of the bar, and the easygoing strains of the new Eagles album...
...story of the late '70s. They even outpoint the Eagles; their last album, 1977's Rumours, has rung up sales of something like 15 million copies. Their new album, Tusk, is two records' worth of prime Mac material; they may even be cueing it up in Dorset right...
...seven-part series was shot in Hardy's own Dorset, and the accents sound suitably provincial. So suitable, indeed, that many Americans might wish for subtitles; it takes a keen ear to sort out all the vagaries of the Southwest Country dialect. But accent is not the main problem with this solid, dutiful adaptation. The main fault is pace, or the lack of it. Director David Giles moves Hardy's improbabilities with all too probable slowness. Despite Bates, Hardy and the best efforts of everyone else, TV's Mayor of Casterbridge is only occasionally exciting...
...time is 1943, and the knowledge that each senior class at Dorset Academy will be graduated to war unsettles schoolboy life, an uncertain state made even less secure because the school is in financial trouble. The most perceptive masters feel a sense of unreality about the place: Is this a real school, and are we really educating boys? Or is it all a halfhearted pretense? There is a certain staginess to the place; the grounds and buildings, donated by a rich and eccentric old lady are too grand for the modest faculty and student body. In addition the donor...
...year-old retired Air Force officer, Warn moved from suburban New Jersey to northern New Hampshire a year ago, plunked down several hundred dollars to fence a one-acre pasture and started taking orders for next year's spring lambs. Their "flock" of two newly purchased Southdown Dorset crossbred ewes hasn't even been delivered yet. "First I want to learn to spin," explains Pat, a thin, exuberant woman clutching a sheaf of notes from the fleece-grading lecture. "Then I want to learn to weave. I've been to the library to get all these books...