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...from the ruins of the Marquis de Sade's castle at La Coste. A second-generation Londoner, she has in her family tree a grandfather who worked with Edison on the invention of the light bulb and a great-uncle who was a founding member of the socialist Fabian Society: a background of cold baths and emancipated thought, transmitted to her by a mother whom Riley describes as "well read, unconventional, very much a product of the new world for women of the 1920s, and always willing to rethink attitudes on orthodox or accepted issues...
...bars, Pomalift 1,725 39 Sugarbush Valley Warren Gondola, 4 chairs, T-bar 2,400 40 Suicide Six Woodstock 2 Pomalifts 600 NEW HAMPSHIRE 41 Attitash Bartlett 3 chairs, T-bar 1,525 42 Black Mountain Jackson Chair, 2 T-bars, J-bar 1,200 43 Bretton Woods Fabian 2 chairs, T-bar 1,200 44 Cannon Mountain Franconia Tramway, 2 chairs, 4 T-bars 2,135 45 Cranmore North Conway 2 Skimobiles, 3 chairs, Pomalift 1,500 46 Crotched Mountain Francestown Chair, 2 T-bars, Ponylift 700 47 Dartmouth Skiway Lyme Chair, Pomalift, T-bar 900 48 Gunstock Gilford...
...sounds, vaguely familiar, echo in the void: Patti Page and the Tennessee Waltz; Jo Stafford and Shrimp Boats; Rosemary Clooney and Come On-a My House. Elvis, Bobby Darin, Fabian with a slew of golden oldies. At the drive-ins, American Graffiti and The Lords of Flatbush re-create the oleaginous pompadours and switchblade rhetoric of the Shook-Up Epoch. In affluent circles there are Fabulous '50s parties: the debutantes rigged out in calf-length skirts and open-toed, high-heeled numbers, and their dates in narrow ties and pink shirts and trousers that bag at the ankle...
...lesser roles, John Seidman makes much more of the servant Fabian than customary, Philip Carling is a dull and amateurish Valentine, Michael Levin is an adequate Antonio, and Tom McLaughlin speaks with too much preciosity for a Sea Captain...
HAPPY NEW YEAR (directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Francoise Fabian, Charles Gerard and Lino Ventura) is so much gauzy enchantment that it takes some extra deep breathers to come down once you've hit the street. The movie could fill the prescription of the most diehard dream factory devotee--romance and a robbery heist, suspense and soft-boiled humor, a 'sensitive' style that cloaks everything in a nimbus of mist. It's the very best kind of make-out movie, all promises. And if you're not up for a few hours of huggy-wug and kissy-bear--though...