Word: furner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait for the vidco: it is not the stuff of which mini series are made. The sibling affairs here are delightfully foreign: not because they sprout in London but because they involve the separate affairs of Professor Vinnie Miner, an authority on English children rhymes, and Assistant Professor Fred Furner, who is in pursuit of tenure via the works of eighteenth century English poet John...
...Fred Furner--"a handsome, athletic-looking young man, the type that directors employ to battle carnivorous vegetables"-- finds himself matter-of-factly in love with BBC star Lady Rosemary Radley. The British Museum, his research on Poet Gay, his semi-estranged photographer wife back home, none of this can check his ecstatic infatuation. Never minding that he must soon return to teach summer school and never noticing "her assumption of a teasing impulsive intimacy which yet holds its victims at arm's length," Turner succumbs, willingly...
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