Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are as many reasons to love Trollope as there are people who read him. High on the list is his magical ability to soothe: by rough and arbitrary calculation, 25 pages of Barchester Towers are equal to a 5-mg. Valium, while 15 pages of Can You Forgive Her? are worth two Miltowns. The intricate struggles for power within the Anglican Church and the Victorian crises of conscience are interesting but not unduly exciting, absorbing but not all-involving. Best of all, the stories go on seemingly forever and satisfy the modern taste for family sagas -just look...
...water, is high in calcium and almost salt free. The company "believes," but will not be able to advertise in the U.S., that the water helps "prevent heart disease in some instances, keep makeup fresh and soothe a hangover." Perrier President Gustave Leven says simply, "Americans will love Perrier because it is nice for your digestion." Leven is protected whether the U.S. venture succeeds or flops; he holds the Pepsi franchise for all of France...
Although the end of excommunication restores remarried Catholics to the margins of church life, they are still forbidden to receive Communion. Thus, says O'Donnell, the action is most important as "a gesture of love and reconciliation." The bishops hope that alienated Catholics will resume church activity and look into the possibility of getting church annulments of their original marriages. If they do, they will discover that the grounds for granting annulments have widened greatly in recent years, and that cases are handled locally under streamlined procedures...
...seemed, come out to only one person, a low-caste wife. Candice Bergen is strangely cast as the wife in the film, playing the role with her hair colored a deglamorizing brown. But her scenes with Hackman have neither flair nor fire, and their love seems merely fabricated to satisfy a movie convention...
...infers, largely from Chaucer's poetry, that the author of The Canterbury Tales was shrewd, playful, funny, a mocker, but even-tempered, a religious man capable of what Gardner slyly calls "willing suspension of belief." Though the poet, as a matter of convention, denied all personal knowledge of love, his love poetry was strongly sexual...