Word: fiona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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corrective education disguised as comedy. Fiona French's timing is not exactly Henny Youngman's. and the practical joke that a nobleman plays on a sculptor is somewhat short of hilarious. But her illustrations make shrewd use of the quattrocento palette and the faces on old coins. If Dante had ever written a children's book, these are the paintings he would have wanted in the middle of the journey...
...MARQUIS DE SADE should be alive today. DePalma and DeSade would make a brilliant director-screenwriter team. In Brian DePalma's latest thriller, The Fury, Fiona Lewis plays a high-class, whorish British bitch-doctor whose titillating, condescending blue eyes make you want to punch her in the nose. Hitchcock would have let Cary Grant do just that--assuming that we in the audience are all voyeurs--and in his later days would have sent her to his legendary shower. DePalma, characteristically, goes further. In one of many representative sequences in The Fury, Robin (Andrew Stevens), Lewis's jealous lover...
...characters, however, smolder without burning. Fiona Cleary spends an extended lifetime being a "very unhappy woman" because of the married man she loved and lost in her youth. Daughter Meggie spends her life moping over her love for the devilishly handsome Ralph de Bricassart. One woman who sees him muses: "He's the handsomest chap I've ever seen! An archbishop, no less!" She cannot restrain herself from adding, "What a father you'd have made, Father!" Alas, Ralph is wedded to the Roman Catholic Church. He loves Meggie but he cannot throw away his vows. Meggie...
...Fiona Macintosh and why is her employer saying all those terrible things about her? A barrage of ads in U.S. publications condemns her as the "world's most hated stewardess," though a glance at her face proves that she is an absolute lamb. Supposedly, however, Fiona is detested by the other airlines that compete against British Caledonian Airways, the most aggressive scheduled carrier to appear on the crowded North Atlantic run in years. Caledonian launched its new flights April 1, to the accompaniment of a slick ad campaign that bills the company to American passengers as "the airline other...
Indeed, Cyril's single-minded pursuit of pleasure--matched by Fiona's overwhelming (yet apparently insufficient) sensuality--and the almost grotesque immersion they seek in sex are fully compatible with the claims of the setting. But the resulting demands are so intense, the sex esthetic so jealous of other considerations (such as the urge to live decent lives instead of envious or exploitative half-lives), that the very paysage moralise becomes finally, for all but Cyril, more nearly that of hell than of heaven. Most of the elements which might arrange themselves in a really fine novel are present...