Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phaedra. Melina Mercouri purrs, snarls and shrieks in this modern-day version of an old Greek myth. Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism. Only Tony Perkins seems somewhat less than believable as Vallone's stepson...
...build the moonlight effect up slowly, then build highlights and subtle shadows. Then suddenly I turn it all off and flash a floodlight on the garden. Everybody always says, 'Oh, no!' and from that moment I know I've got a convert, and the husband knows he's going to have to spend some money. Floodlights are for finding your automobile in the driveway or for carrying the garbage out to the trash can. But not for gardens...
Dimitri, summering at Yalta, meets Anna, a sad-faced beauty who promenades every day along the quay with her little white spitz, Ralph. Dimitri has a wife, a pince-nezed intellectual, back in Moscow; Anna's husband is a foppish flunky in Saratov. As they become friends and lovers, Anna's unhappiness and self-recrimination grow stronger: Dimitri at length returns to Moscow to face the winter and his wife's domineering. Then, aboard a tram one day, he sees a little white dog go scampering through the snowy streets...
...been married at 14 to the man who was to be Francis II of France, she had studied under Machiavelli and learned her lessons well. The women of the French court thought her middle class, but ambassadors to the Louvre knew where the power lay. After her husband's death in 1559, Catherine ruled France for 30 years while a succession of three weak sons occupied the throne...
...Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid repository of honor) have been married for several years when family duty demands a temporary separation. He flies to Mississippi to straighten out the affairs of a dotty aunt; she travels to the bedside of a stern Quaker uncle. The distance between husband and wife and their return to their beginnings quicken the webbed roots of memory. Recollection exfoliates until at last, over the distance, the leaves touch...