Word: isabell
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...ambitious teenager, she changed her name from Cicily Isabel Fairfield to Rebecca West, after one of Ibsen's strong-minded heroines, and then spent much of her life in the public spotlight. In 1912 she began a tumultuous ten- year affair with H.G. Wells and in 1914 bore him a son; meanwhile, her writing began to attract attention. She produced fiction, biography, history, criticism and a steady supply of journalism. She espoused feminism in its early wave and patriotism during the period after World War II when her native England reeled with self-doubt. Although she died...
...expected it," said Isabel T. Lagomasino '86. "I think he did a good job for the first four years. He was the better...
...telling us just what everything means. Despair not, Ever thoughtful Columbia pictures offers film critics a publicity pack complete with Murray and Director Byrum's musings that role well enough Characters, who seem only straight men a women for Murray take on complex even literary dimmensions. "Catherine's character (Isabel) is someone you fall in love with who returns that love but to the extent that it makes you feel miserable," Get it? Seeing the film won't help. Murray might as well have said, "Yes, and there where you see the poor peasants walking along the river is where...
...Denholm Elliot plays Uncle Elliot, the quintessential Maugham man of society with impeccable charm and studied superficiality. "I spent my life with the great names of Europe," he says with the perfect match of weariness and savoir-faire, "and who comes to visit me." Less successfully, Catherine Hicks portrays Isabel with the pain and confusion one associates with "the drugs and all of that" that are the sum of our knowledge of Isabel...
What sets Larry pondering the question of where he and the world are heading is the horror of World War I trench warfare. Mustered out, he rejects a career in the stock market and marriage to Isabel (Catherine Hicks), his bitchy, materialistic fiancée, in order to embrace the exemplary poverty and thoughtfulness of Left Bank Paris in the '20s. Thereafter, a great deal of breathless plotting contrives to keep him in touch both with Isabel and with Sophie (Theresa Russell), another, more sensitive, therefore more self-destructive girl he left behind. It is not merely that...