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...usual, James Ivory evokes the past -- in this case, Edwardian England -- prettily enough. But having achieved a personal best in A Room with a View, he reverts to form here. That means too reverential a regard for his literary sources (which in this minor case is unnecessary) and no respect at all for screen dynamics. He remains trapped in the same guilty spirit in which Forster wrote...
...prefer to make arbitrary assessments at the end of the semester," said the professor, flashing a writerly grin into the chest of an Edwardian gown above a pair of purple hightops...
...wonder if he always write alone?" wondered the Edwardian from between the earphones of her walkman...
...Dolphin football star; and Oleg Cassini, the aristocratic little Italian fashion designer. Each one of them put on colorful racing silks designed by Cassini and then climbed into harness sulkies. They guided their spirited horses at a brisk trot around the track as if they were aristocrats circling an Edwardian park. The celebrities treated the race with the mock seriousness typical of such events. Their real goal, besides the charity, was to have fun without making absolute fools of themselves. Except, that is, for Steinbrenner, whose only goal in everything he does is to win, which often guarantees that...
Naipaul's 19th book yields its pleasures slowly. Its plot is essentially the passage of ten years, during which the writer lives in a cottage on the grounds of a Victorian-Edwardian manor in a Wiltshire valley within easy walking distance of Stonehenge and Salisbury Plain. In the beginning he arrives; at the end he goes. In between, this writer (hereafter called, for the sake of convenience, Naipaul) thinks occasionally about the first 18 years of his life in Trinidad, "my insecure past," and the scholarship that took him to Oxford and England, "the other man's country." He reveals...