Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alastair, son of a down-at-heel Scottish laird, is Author Scott's example of how the process works. While his school friend Patrick shines up old claymores and dotes on mossy manor houses, Alastair claws his way to the top of the class and gets to Cambridge University-"a wee Scottie on the make." he gleefully calls himself. He takes Cathy away from Patrick as briskly and heartlessly as a cat would snatch a piece of meat, and he declaims his creed in the mocking tones of one who will never be shackled by ties of tradition...
...visual richness of Miss Julie, however, is extraordinary, with striking contrasts of light and shadow and dramatic composition of scenes. From intriguing perspectives, the camera roams over the manor-house grounds in the half-light of a Swedish Midsummer Eve and moves gracefully into the past of the flashbacks or the future of Miss Julie's fancies. The absence of dialogue in many of these sequences, accompanied by the words of a single character, accentuates the pictorial emphasis of the film. Occasionally the striving for dramatic effect without dialogue leads to ludicrous exaggeration, as when the death of Miss Julie...
...Army) and in 1939 became a U.S. citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never seen, Handyman Dunbar suddenly became Sir Adrian Dunbar, heir to a 259-year-old Scottish baronetcy and a 3,400-acre Wigtownshire estate complete with manor house, tenantry, hunting lodge and a ?20,000 trust fund...
Last month, for example, Wolanow bought the Edgemont Manor in Los Angeles for $445,000, paying a little less than half in cash, the rest with a 5% mortgage. Upkeep runs $42,600 a year and gross income $84,000. The income would be taxable except that Sacha can deduct his depreciations, e.g., 5% yearly of the building valued at $250,000, and 20% on the furniture valued at $150,000. The total yearly depreciation adds up to $42,500, every penny of it deductible from income and all taxfree. After a few years, when the furniture is depreciated...
Brown has given up racing himself (though his 21-year-old daughter Angela and son David Jr. race), but he still rides in county point-to-point races on the thoroughbreds he raises on his 700-acre farm, Chequers Manor, near London. A licensed pilot, he often flies his own plane on business trips. In his hunt for new markets all over the globe, he has found he can ship British tractors through the Panama Canal cheaply enough to compete with Midwest tractor makers for California sales. Says he: "We wouldn't try to sell in the Midwest, because...