Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adaptation of Truman Capote's lonely-hearts story about two people who meet in a cemetery - a widower (Martin Balsam) paying his respects to his late wife and a spinster (Maureen Stapleton) who has heard that a graveyard is a good place to look for a husband...
...laugh of a hyena and the implacable euphoria of a lobotomy patient, Aubrey woos and wins the Fishers' younger daughter Amy over the vociferous outrage of the rest of the family. Aubrey does everything wrong-lying with grandiloquent transparency, big-spending his way into debt-and as a husband seems to justify every dire prediction of the fuming Mrs. Fisher. Of course, there turns out to be some good in him after...
...afloat on a lake." Young Japanese architects formed a society to save the hotel as "a symbol of courage and originality." Wright's widow, Olgivanna, now in her 70s, flew in from Taliesin, Wis., to meet with officials in an effort to save the "spiritual presence of my husband...
...almost total collapse of human decency in a highly civilized-perhaps overcivilized-society. Author Gainham knows Austria well, and the Viennese victims, fence sitters, Nazi bullyboys, happy collaborators and German overlords are all convincing enough for documentary purposes. Almost predictably, her heroine, a famous actress, has a Jewish husband, and the terrifying things that happen when she hides him in a dummy room keep a thread of suspense...
Once the two women appear on the scene, they dominate the play perceptibly and strike plangent chords of passion and pity. Clytemnestra is the first to learn of her raddled husband's purpose. She spews at him the clotted venom of years of pent-up hate in a bad marriage; yet what chokes her spirit is anguish for her child...