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Word: fiancees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornuelle suffers from a tendancy toward repetitious speech rhythms and oddly placed emphasis. Because she is so unconvicing in her original fight with her aunt and with Karen's fiance, her intensity in the climactic confession scene with Karen jolts one into surprised attention. Subtly shifting her volume at key...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: The Puppet Hour | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

Death on the Nile, by this standard, is a good Christie movie. The film opens on the lush greens and browns of the sprawling English country estate of Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles), who agrees to do best friend Jackie (Mia Farrow) a favor by hiring her fiance as groundskeeper. Fiance...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Christie on the Nile | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

The floating powder keg needs only a spark to explode. It soon gets one, as Mia Farrow shows up again and boards the cruise. One night in the saloon she shoots her ex-lover in the leg, dropping the gun on the floor in panic. The doctor leads Fiance away...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Christie on the Nile | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

William Wycherly was one of the better writers from this period, and The Country Wife is one of his better plays, some say the best. The plot revolves around a professional rake named Horner, who with the help of his doctor, Quack, convinces the men of London society that he...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: The Joy of Cuckoldry | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

There, up from a Washington suburb sporting an ice cream suit fit for Cab Calloway and a wife who made it known she had met Liz Taylor, was the kid who had been the class's best dancer. There, gowned in lavender and telling of an ended marriage while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: A Time on the River | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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