Word: ferrat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of their courtship was spent aboard a yacht on Chesapeake Bay, so the Pritchards decide to recapture the essence of their romance by taking a three-month vacation on Cap Ferrat on the French Mediterranean. There, surrounded by a group of sybaritic international degenerates, Michael has an intense sexual bout with an English actress and, wittingly or unwittingly, hires an Italian gigolo to teach Margaret French and other things. What they both learn is what destroys them...
Although the marriage ends with Margaret's disappearance from Cap Ferrat, it lives on in Michael's mind, recounted and reflected upon there in a sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, often tender and usually elegiac tone. By using the erudite Michael as his narrator, J. R. Salamanca succeeds in finding an appropriate vehicle for his insights and his fluid poetic prose. Few writers have shown so perceptively that love and marriage are not as simply connected as the horse and carriage...
Married. Romy Schneider, 27, Austria's sugar-and-ice gift to the movies (Boccaccio 70); and Harry Haubenstock, 44, German actor-director; he for the second time; in St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Orson Welles narrates this report (in color) on the underwater experiments of France's Jacques-Yves Cousteau (The World of Silence), whose Continental Shelf Station III-328 ft. below the surface of the Mediterranean off Cap Ferrat-was the home of six French "oceanauts" for 21 days, 17 hours and 16 minutes, the longest man has ever stayed at such a depth...
...long in coming: 27 years. The design was spoiled and it sorely strained the patience of the man who was dedicated to the idea that a well-constructed narrative should draw to a swift and orderly close. At his seaside villa on Cap Ferrat, going deaf and blind, Maugham complained bitterly at the way time's slow hand was writing his last chapter. "I am sick of this way of life," he said. "I want to die." Earlier this month, he sank into a coma following a stroke. The 91-year-old heart beat six days longer...