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...York society of the 1870s, Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a true romantic gentleman. He is romantic because he wants to shrug off the opera cape of domestic respectability and follow his heart to hell with the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). He is a gentleman because, having already declared his love to pretty May Welland (Winona Ryder), he is bound to behave honorably. He knows that when passion and propriety collide, only bitter defeat may rise from the wreckage...
...Aykroyd's wonderfully fretful smile. It expresses worlds of ambiguities: anextraterrestrial's frustration at Earth mores, a doting parent's concern for his ripening daughter, a gentleman's willingness to be the sweet butt of jokes (and, in a funny shower scene, the butt of butt jokes). His mottos might be, Live and let live; Grin and bare...
...think it's very important that the city set standards that don't allow Harvard to accept a gentleman's C," said Pitkin. "Harvard is now getting a gentleman...
Thirty years ago, at the opening of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, the protagonist, Leamas, was defined as a person who could not quite pass for a London clubman, a "man who was not quite a gentleman." Now, early in his new book, we are told that John le Carre's latest alienated loner, Jonathan Pine, though taken for a gentleman, did not in fact go to "that kind of school." A pungent reminder that the real wars Le Carre has been chronicling -- the class war in Britain, and the civil (very civil) war between one side...
...least two kinds of Le Carre admirers: the official reader, who turns the pages avidly to follow the byzantine and brilliant interlacing of plots and identities and places; and the covert reader, who reads between the lines for Le Carre's searching and intense examinations into the counterfeit gentleman, and the divided heart of Englishmen. The official reader responds to the master storyteller whose narratives purr by with the smooth whoosh of a Bentley; the secret reader finds him the most interesting English novelist alive for his discussion of the quest for absolutes in an ambiguous, secular...