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...Here lay the quarters for the servants. . . Back in one corner, a melancholy boy from the south strummed a broken mandolin found in one of the garrets, weaving the futile passions of his country ballads. It was in these parts, too, that the mushrooms were grown, pale and fat as frog bellies, whose caretaker, after a short time shut up underground, turned as cold, as silent, as blind as those delicious fungi the masters were so fond of. One had only to venture a short distance, lamp in hand, beyond where last year's straw ticks lay rotting...
...characters become the central focus of the film, while the background tends to reflect the mood or mindset of the principles. When Lena and Madeline spend a day exploring Lyon for a site to start their dress shop, Lyon looks like a muted painting with pastel buildings and pale skies, invoking the almost dreamlike quality of the day. When Lena's child gets left behind during the excursion, the audience is thrust back into the really of material responsibility as Lena and Madeline pace around the seemingly stark interior of Lena's home. Kury never diverts the audience's attention...
...High Renaissance, a painting that almost (but not quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...
Jacket Missing: A pale pink down jacket valued at $160, was reported taken from the Blodgett Pool locker room floor between 4 and 5 p.m. last Saturday...
...doctors discovered that the pale and distressingly listless baby had CF. The disease strikes one in 1,000 children, is always fatal, but ravages its victims first. Girls suffer more than boys and die at a faster rate. To prolong Alex's life, Deford and his wife Carol daily had to hold her upside down and pound her chest and back to loosen the life-threatening mucus in her lungs. "Two thousand times I had to beat my sick child," her father recalls, "make her hurt and cry and plead - 'No, not the down ones, Daddy...