Word: girlhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upper classes. His little sketch of Daisy is the portrayal of everything they scorn; even more, it is an affront to the whole of Victorian society and its stiff, sexual repression. Daisy, said one Philadelphian publisher in rejecting the long story written in 1878, was "an outrage to American girlhood." Yet, Daisy is not an outrage: She is the one alive person in the story amidst a virtual morgue of grey propriety. She's also coquettish, a flirt of the worst sort, and a damnable tease. But throughout the story one is never sure if it's not just...
Richard, in fact, is well past jagged recollections of Meg's ominous girlhood and into an account of her relapse-which brings a return to the asylum-before the reader, by now totally in the grip of the author, really admits that Richard the good may in fact be Richard the bad, a brother whose sexual advances perhaps drove Sister Meg insane in the first place. Thereafter, as Meg is re-examined and taken away in a straitjacket, the book erupts with dramatic clues that flare backward and forward through the narrative like thin, ignited trains of gunpowder, creating...
...British press, predictably, had a field day. SUNSHINE PRINCESS is A STUNNER, bleated the London Evening News. MY PRINCESS, bannered the Daily Express possessively. Television built up to the big event with all the suspense of a moon shot. From fond accounts of Anne's girlhood visit to a monkey farm in Malta to interviews with the sexton who would ring the church bell in Mark's home town of Great Somerford, no detail seemed too trivial to mention...
...author's self-portrait is shadowy. She likes her tough side, noting that a friend once said, "I've always liked your anger, trusted it." From girlhood, Hellman went for the impulsive gesture, skipping school to trail shady relatives around New Orleans, insulting proper ones. The writing often recalls Gertrude Stein's stonier prose - obdurate, flat and mannered. Hellman is a virtuoso of ellipsis, a quality that doubtless served her well as a dramatist. In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except...
...location in the Christmas-card setting of Røros, Norway, and bring in such supporting players as David Warner (Nora's husband, Torvald), Trevor Howard (Torvald's friend, Dr. Rank), Edward Fox (the blackmailer, Krogstad) and France's Delphine Seyrig (Nora's girlhood companion, Kristine). Terrific, right? Says Losey: "I hated every bloody minute of it." TIME's Jesse Birnbaum, who was on hand for some of the action, explains...