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...heroine is Ellen Olenska, May's cousin, now separated from her European aristocrat husband and thus the subject of purring rumor from the town's smooth hypocrites. As the radiantly giddy May seems a child to Newland, so he feels like a boy in Ellen's presence. The two fall in furtive love. But it is not falling so much as tiptoeing in the dark. Once he kisses her slipper; later he unbuttons her glove and kisses her wrist, then her mouth, which opens more in anguish than in lust. Guilt is the barrier between their lips. And both could...
...elegant and bruised, Ryder a young Audrey Hepburn in all her wide-eyed guile) are swathed in glamorous costumes and period decor. The congestion of old masters on a matron's wall suggests the confined space in which the story unfolds and the straitened notions to which Newland and Ellen must pay homage. The handsomely fussy design is meant to dazzle and deaden the viewer's senses -- as Newland is seduced by Ellen and suffocated...
...story is finally May's triumph, Ellen's rue, Newland's muted ruin. For him it is a tragedy, because he has been made aware of joys anticipated, delayed, crushed. Frequently he rewrites the tryst in his mind: one moment when Ellen might have caressed him, another when she could have turned around, smiled and changed his life...
...power have remained virtually all-male aeries untroubled by female challenges. "It's very unusual to have a suit at this level, although I've been approached by a number of highly placed executive women who have been harassed by a CEO or someone of equally high rank," says Ellen Bravo, executive director of 9to5, National Association of Working Women. "Typically those women take a settlement and get out because it's just too messy and they fear that in speaking out their career will be destroyed...
...national service act, a version of which was passed on Friday by the House of Representatives, is expected to be passed by the Senate in the fall and signed into law by President Clinton, according to Ellen Guiney, chief education advisor to the Senate...