Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lady, Sanditon inevitably becomes something different, more a romance than a novel, more a fairy tale than a quietly satirical exposition of the familiar and the real. "Readers will find here a refreshing change from the violence and general gloom that pervades so much modern fiction." Sanditon's inside leaf tells us indeed they will--Sanditon is certainly entertaining and has the great virtue of ending happily. But they will not find Jane Austen...
Comedy of Murders. This plot bears marked similarities to Elaine May's first feature, A New Leaf (1971), and the difference in the two movies reveals something about Nichols and his former partner. A New Leaf was dark, crazy and exhilaratingly wacky. The Fortune, which also becomes a comedy of murders, is safe and smug. When the boys first try to kill the girl, they dump her in a tiny fountain in two inches of water and creep away, expecting her to drown. The gag does not work because it is clear that the girl is in no peril...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Tonight at 7:35 and 11:10 p.m., Design for Living at 9:35 p.m. The African Queen, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., A New Leaf...
Penny has sent Nick the journals of her life back home during their absences, and they are already two loose leaf volumes of every waking minute. It seems she is the best English student in her class, and thrives on well looped y's and I's, which is fortunate since the loves and the your take a predominant part in her manuscript. Mostly it goes something like this Well last night Nick and I told Dad. No matter how hard we argued we couldn't win him over, and unless he relents I will just die...Nick is just...
...Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean for student affairs and associate professor of Psychiatry; Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson professor of Clinical Medicine; and Dr. LIoyd Axelrod, instructor in Medicine flew to Peking Friday to begin their three to four week visit...