Word: heather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting, in particular, is exceptional. Wendy Hiller is repellently pitiable as the carnivorous mother who entraps D. H. Lawrence's hero. Dean Stockwell fits exactly the author's descriptions of Paul Morel, the almost girlish young artist who calls his mother "pigeon" and dotes on her doting. Heather Sears and Mary Ure are appealing as the young women with whom, and by means of whom, Paul tries to break free; their characterizations are deep enough to show that each girl is in a trap of her own. But it is Trevor Howard, as Paul's hardhanded father...
...Bridal Path. In a kilt-edged romp, Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers is back in the heather highlands, rolling his rs downhill toward laughing low-roaders in the audience...
...Bridal Path. This bucolic bit of Scottish dialogue has to be heard to be misunderstood, but Bill Travers' romp through the heather is a high jink an' diddle...
...last week, as a wintry noon sun glinted dully on the stunted pines and heather, a long line of sleek black Mercedes limousines snaked past the low mounds to a grey stone obelisk that rises like a warning finger over the baleful site of Belsen's barracks and torture cells. From the leading car stepped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, come with three of his Cabinet Ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and a group of Jewish leaders to pay tribute to Belsen's Jewish dead. It was the first visit of any high West German official to the place...
...Bridal Path. This bucolic bit of Scottish dialogue has to be heard to be misunderstood, but Bill Travers' romp through the heather is a high jink andiddle...