Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-handled; if that were not the case, serious American drama would practically be wiped out. But Mr. Lamkin's dialogue is spotted with cliches. "And we laughed, oh, how we laughed. We were the happiest people on earth, without a care," and "Talking won't bring it back, Isabel. It's gone, it's gone," are representative samples. Mr. Lamkin writes so well for Mr. Scott that it is difficult to understand how he can write so badly for nearly everyone else. Many of these excrescences will probably be written out; the wonder is that they ever...
...ISABEL GRAYSON Bridgewater, Conn...
...strict upbringing in the finest traditions of their family-which happens to be a family of expensive prostitutes. Gigi's mother is the black sheep-she has sunk to a respectable job as a second lead in the Opera-Comique-and Gigi's guardians (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) are taking no chances with such bad heredity. They drill the little girl in the fundamentals of her profession: 1) the proper way to eat an ortolan ("Bad table manners have broken up more homes than infidelity"); 2) the proper method of assaying a jewel ("Wait for the first...
Around the Tepee. That Owen has made a mistake is apparent to all but Owen. At the drop of a skillet, Isabel quotes romantic tag lines from Sir Walter Scott, interspersed with bloodcurdlingly cute dialogue of her own. Sample: "You good husband. I bad wife. I keep ugh tepee." Around the ugh tepee gather subsidiary characters who have the power of total reverie, and pages may pass before a simple question gets a simple answer...
...Gone and gotten myself gravid," announces Isabel one day. For Owen the joy turns to horror as his wife becomes obsessed with the notion that her pregnancy has been forced upon her by the black magic of the land's fierce sensuality. She flees to a sorcerer and dies in abortion. For a year, Owen's "chaste maple syrup soul" is frozen. Then he attends a frenzied voodoo initiation, slips into an illicit affair, takes to drink, and the tropics claim another victim...