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Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) was a mere 17 years old when the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) began courting her - not that the ways of courtliness were among His Grace's skill sets. It is hard to imagine, in fact, what commonly recognizable human traits - aside from a passion for his dogs - this dour, emotionally constipated 18th-century man possessed. Essentially, he was doing a deal with Georgiana's mother (Charlotte Rampling), who has assured her that the Spencer women are historically adept at producing male heirs. And the Duke, whose other negative attributes included stupidity, believed...
...thoughts of Prince Charles stray into your mind as you watch His Grace, that's your business. The same is true of Georgiana, who is the ancestor of Princess Di, except, that in the 18th century, her brain cells were not yet completely replaced by air. She conveys a nice sense of an untutored woman trying to embrace the world beyond the bounds of her class, while not being harassed by it - or by the tabloids, which existed in primitive form in those days, too. The Duchess, however, does not insist on such analogies; they're there...
...There is a quality to this book that is often absent from the contemporary novel. Let's call it grace...
...They did amazingly well.”Lambert and DeAngelo recorded four top-three finishes, including a win, on Saturday, before following up that performance with a fourth-place showing at the Captain’s Cup on Sunday.Meanwhile, the A-division duo of skipper Powers and sophomore crew Grace Charles had a solid weekend, finishing sixth overall on Saturday and seventh on Sunday. As a team, Harvard placed third at the Man-Labs Trophy and fourth at the Captain’s Cup.Yale won Saturday’s event, with Boston College taking top honors on Sunday.With the women?...
...flinty efficiency and a grace of carriage; she sounds wise, looks slim and relatively youthful, dominates the weekend with her personality. She's obsessed with what will happen to her property and belongings but declines to spell it out in her will. Scob, who nearly a half-century ago was the muse of the remarkable director George Franju (Eyes Without a Face, Thérese Desqueyroux, Judex), has an ingrained insight into the character that not only presents Hélene in her 70s but suggests the kind of mother she must have been. There's also a taut sensuality...