Word: esteli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arresting its growth at 5 ft. But the adult world mattered when, after graduation from Edinburgh University, he was expected to prepare for a solid job and search for a mate. The first prospect filled him with gloom, the latter with dread. He wrote in his notebook: "Great-est horror-dream I am married-wake up shrieking...
...Like everything else on the album, it slides neatly in one ear and just as neatly oozes out the other. The proposed image was, as Hubbard notes, of "a yacht in the Mediterranean. Leaning over a rail at night thinking. The whole spectrum of love: the champagne of c'est la vie in a million stories...
...Gertrude a fellow spirit struggling to burst free. The couple, played with lively grace by Tim Woodward and Lisa Eichhorn, provide the movie with its most beguiling passages, and their story, his winning her away from the lumpish minister her family intends her to marry, gives it its strong est narrative pulse as well...
Ivory might have been helpful, but he is a careful and slightly anemic director, unable to dig out tensions lurking beneath his correct, bland surfaces. The result is a pleasant, pretty entertainment. One suspects that this film is outside its natural element on a theatrical screen, that its mod est virtues would shine to better advantage on PBS. If we had a properly functioning public broadcasting system in the country, American classics like The Europeans might be produced with funds and talent in profusion...
Actually, most of his characters are really aspects of himself. If Flaubert could say "Madame Bovary, c'est moi,"Brooks could c'est the same of Lou, Ted, Rhoda, Phyllis, Murray and the always resistible Sue Ann. "I've identified with everybody but Mary," he admits. Ted's meeting with his long-lost father, the plot of one of the best MTM shows, was based on Brooks' meeting with his own dad, whom he also had not seen in years. Told that he was in a hospital in New Jersey, Brooks walked...