Word: heathcliffian
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...based on the kind of personal magnetism that has been making baritones and matinee idols rich and famous for generations, a particular masculine presence. Lean and hard (6 ft. 3 in., 155 Ibs.), often mustachioed, always with hair breaking at his shoulders, Taylor physically projects a blend of Heathcliffian inner fire with a melancholy sorrows-of-young-Werther look that can strike to the female heart?at any age. Half explaining, half apologizing for her delight in Fire and Rain, a University of Michigan coed who is also a trained musician admits: "I don't know why I love...
...bloomin' lot more of this if enough people had the time and money." His fixed stare and halting accents never quite cancel out the suspicion that he is just the sort of menace a comely bird might yearn to be imprisoned by-a vaguely Heathcliffian introvert reviving a Brontë romance in modern dress. Thus Actress Eggar dominates the film, not by better acting but by seeming hand-in-glove with her role. Plucky, tenacious, she proceeds moment by moment from incredulity to seductiveness to violence to the awful realization that she is merely a bright ephemeral...
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