Word: mirabel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American and was married to another member of the group. The terrorists were polite once in command, distributing to all the passengers leaflets explaining their organization, "Fighters for Free Croatia," and their aims. But they ordered the plane to turn north toward Montreal, where it landed at Mirabel International Airport and was refueled...
...genre and of its convoluted mechanics. Plots, subplots, stratagems, backfiring intrigues and unmaskings make up The Way of The World. In simplest terms, the play hangs on a purse string. The superannuated but insatiably lustful Lady Wishfort (Jessica Tandy) controls a fortune and has an itch for the philanderer Mirabel (Jeremy Brett). He, in turn, has fallen in love with her niece Millamant (Maggie Smith) and schemes to blackmail Lady Wishfort in order to secure her consent to his marriage to Millamant. That is just about what happens...
...other performances are anticlimactic. Jeremy Brett seems not so much to be playing the role of Mirabel as modeling for it in some 18th century fashion parade, and while Jessica Tandy gives Lady Wishfort a brave try, she lacks the coarse, sensual vulgarity of what is, essentially, a dirty old woman...