Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freeman brings freshness and wit to what is essentially a literary cliche: the world microcosm, the great passions of the large war replicated on a smaller scale, not among nations, but among a small group of individuals. In the beginning there is peace and a rustic scene of a small girls' school preparing for a charity Easter egg hunt. This Easter peace is broken when one of the young students at the school is discovered to be missing...
...Gillian Freeman, who is quite literate, is a writer in the Austen tradition. With its gothic surprise ending and all, the plot of An Easter Egg Hunt could be summarized in a couple of lines. Yet Freeman does more than merely tell a story. She re-creates an era. The story is set in the famed English countryside, during World War I. The Great War intrudes on the narrative no more than it intrudes on the small girls' school in which the action transpires. Tightened food supplies and army cadets training nearby are the only evidence in the girls' little...
Screenplay by Deric Washburn, Walon Green and David Freeman...
Over at Shea, Richard Todd pulled off the regular season's most exciting victory with a last-second touchdown against Miami. Freeman MacNeil added excitement to the Jets' running attack, and Gastineau and Klecko became legends as heads of the New York Sack Exchange...
...Indecent Obsession, McCullough (1 last week) 2. Cujo, King (2) 3. Noble House, Clavell (4) 4. The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (3) 5. Masquerade, Williams 6. No Time for Tears, Freeman (5) 7. Remembrance, Steel (6) 8. Gorky Park, Smith 9. God Emperor of Dune, Herbert 10. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley...