Word: genteelism
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...1920s New Orleans, Williams' play is a work of psychological warfare. When the genteel Blanche Dubois mysteriously insinuates herself into the lives of her younger sister, Stella, and Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski, she precipitates her own fall, begun twenty years earlier on the family plantation. Part of the difficulty of the play lies in the sense that everything following the inital fall from glory is simply a decades long after-shock...
...that can have no victors. Dr. Austin Sloper (Philip Bosco) is a wealthy widower whose earnest daughter Catherine (Cherry Jones) pales beside his resplendent memories of his wife (who, to make the comparison all the more pointed and painful, died giving birth to Catherine). Reared in an atmosphere of genteel censure, Catherine only gradually surmises that "no one has ever loved me in my life." When love surprisingly appears--or its slick semblance, in the form of a fortune hunter (Jon Tenney)--she comes to realize that if there is a choice between two forms of counterfeit affection, a cash...
...argued rather persuasively that such descriptions are now unconscionable, that fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the muck and mire of the subconscious; it forgets that private nightmares will fester in solitary confinement instead of finding cathartic company in the public community of stories...
...46th printing and three weeks ago, passed the one-year mark on the New York Times' best-seller list. It has been translated into six languages, including Norwegian, is being developed as a movie by Warner Bros., and has sparked a tourist boom in the genteel town of Savannah. Says Susan Weiner, the city's mayor: "We are all now walking tour books...
...twice and would have been in danger of losing his license as he headed for his third fund-raising meeting of the day. The former Tennessee Governor got up before dawn that morning in New Hampshire, flew to Nashville and then addressed his 40 top local financiers at a genteel Governor's-mansion lunch. He later huddled with country-music star Ray Stevens (A-hab the A-rab) to plan the entertainment for a $2 million fund-raising dinner this Monday and then dashed to a small arm-twisting reception on Nashville's storied southwest side around dusk...