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...students crowding House common rooms and the Union's parior room to watch the story of Toby and her three roommates unfold were quick to notice the discrepancies between life in her Holworthy Hall--which sported pink wallpaper--and life in the real college...
...existence is handled very cleverly even on a purely physical level. Because the memoirs come alive only through the readership of Zoditch, Chulkaturin's history is played out among the paraphernalia of Zoditch's boarding house. The first reader's bed serves the focus for much of the action--parior scenes, forest scene, garden scenes all occur around the bed, on which Zoditch, himself sits, reading the manuscript, impervious and scornful...
Judith Walzer--"Some Images of Women in Yiddish Fiction" in the Phillips Brooks Housde Parior...
...Ruling Class. Peter O'Toole is a saintly-string of blonde hair and blue eyes here, playing a young aristocrat who is a psychotic, schizophrenic, paranolac, psychopathic nut, who takes his relaxation by hanging himself up on a crucifix in the parior, and who is uncomfortable in the role of noble and has no respect for his wealth or position. We're supposed to like him--he's the truly sane one, right? A worthless creep, I think--the idea is admirable, and there are a couple of good bits on the English class system, but they, come from straight...
...FRANK McDONALD, a local funeral parior owner, picked up the phone to console John Hogan '73, he did not face a very difficult...