Word: faithfull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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And although the hardcore that did show up was faithful to the end, giving the icemen a three-minute standing ovation after the final whistle, the packed-to-the-rafters fanaticism of previous campaigns was nowhere to be found.
McKinley's thoroughness and control of plot are marvelous. Up to the last chapter, the fate of his characters is in doubt. And although it is possible to see the novel from a purely moralistic views, the tone is never preachy or unnecessarily gloomy; McGinley shuns intellectual, moral, or narrative...
The doctor is in the throes of a rather too calculated crisis: his longtime office nurse, a childhood sweetheart and pathetically faithful dogsbody, lies dying of cancer that he failed to detect in time.
Invaders appear, or seem to: cannibals, neighboring peasants, armed servants intent on recapturing the house for their masters, although visions of rebellion motivate a few of these as well. Donoso, 59, keeps this panorama of victories and defeats moving through exhaustive permutations in high gear, and the translation from Spanish...
The 1984 version offers more consistently inventive staging and better dialogue, which becomes a sort of merrily muttered accompaniment to the main comic theme. It was, of course, wonderful to watch the meltdown of Rex Harrison's icy aplomb in the original, and one cannot expect that of Moore...