Word: idyls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Characters and Their Landscapes, is no celebration of the romantic idyl. Blythe well knows the curse of the quaint. He understands the perversity as well as the sanity in the compulsion of an Englishman to pull on his boots and muck about on the meadows, heaths and chalky plains of his native land. With country realism the author allows that to "be a native once meant to be a born thrall." He also notes that "Robert Burns' object in publishing his poems was not to celebrate his oneness with the village of Mossgiel but to make enough money...
...Fanny and Alexander, Bergman means to offer a summing up of all his films, characters and moods. The first part of this 3-hr. 17-min. entertainment (reduced from a five-hour series made for Swedish television) is a family idyl. Oscar Ekdahl (Allan Edwall) is impresario of the local theater, and life at home is a succession of agreeable rituals: caroling, speechifying, sumptuous meals, flirtatious sex. The house is the perfect home for Alexander, whose favorite toy is a "magic lantern," a primitive movie camera. He can prowl through the unoccupied rooms poking into old mysteries, scouting loca tions...
...idyl was shattered one evening last December, when Revolutionary Leader Desi Bouterse ordered the arrest of 16 of the country's most prominent citizens, including lawyers, journalists and labor leaders. The next morning all but one of them were dead. Doctors later found evidence of knife wounds and cigarette burns on the corpses; teeth and jaws had been broken, while arms had been almost torn from their sockets. Labor Leader Cyril Daal had been ritually castrated. Bou terse, 37, who reportedly killed two of the men, joyfully proclaimed "the building of a new Suriname." But his 350,000 citizens...
...Sara and Gerald Murphy were more than monuments of the jazz age. Honoria Murphy Donnelly, their daughter, repeats the familiar accounts of her parents' grand style and hospitality, but she also describes in poignant detail the twin tragedies that shattered their European idyl: the death of the Murphys' sons, Baoth in 1935 of a sudden attack of meningitis and Patrick in 1937 after a long fight with tuberculosis, each within months of his 16th birthday. "The golden bowl is broken indeed," Fitzgerald consoled his friends. "But it was golden; nothing can ever take those boys away from...
Following church on Sunday, an Episcopal service at which Prince Philip read from I Corinthians 3 for 600 fellow congregants, they flew on Air Force Two to Palm Springs for an idyl with Publisher Walter Annenberg. The royals' limousine wheeled into the driveway just past the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Frank Sinatra Drive, beyond the 30-ft-tall reproduction Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador...