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...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character. --Lynn...
...that time [when he first arrived in the U.S. in 1981], we were just coming to the U.S. to study," he says. "But even back then, even with relatively little exchange, people knew that the U.S. was at the forefront of technology and research. We knew that because each year U.S. scientists won all the top prizes in science...
Nevertheless, there were ample clues, beyond the obvious energy of the music itself, that Dylan was having a great time onstage. At times he allowed his guitar playing to take the forefront, plucking lead lines with gusto. Reappearing from backstage for his first encore, Dylan delivered a marathon version of "Highway 61 Revisited" in which he traded bluesy licks with his lead guitarist. During several such moments in his performance, Dylan allowed discreet grins to betray the pleasure he was finding in these vigorous interpretations of his compositions...
...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character...
...degrees of separation applied. Benfey delves into this byzantine web of relationships with zest, retrieving kernels of enthralling although often irrelevant fact. In his introduction, he mentions that as he wrote the book he had to force characters he "had once chosen for starring roles" to recede from the forefront of his tale, but these characters remain burgeoning starlets...