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The midwest of the early '30's is the locale of the film. Ugly little towns, cropless fields and unpaved roads fill the screen. Garbage, newspapers, and dust blow across endless flatlands, and each shabby interior has its own oppressiveness. It is less poverty than ultimate bleakness that is Bonnie...
Early Shocks. The parsonage at Haworth has become a legend, a crucible of creativity in which the children imagined fantastic kingdoms peopled with fabulous heroes. It also produced recurring tragedy. Mother died of cancer when Charlotte was five. Three years later, her two older sisters died of consumption at an...
No one involved even deigned to take notice when Agatha Christie's comedy-thriller, The Mousetrap, passed its 6,000th London performance last week (v. a measly 2,238 for former British record holder Chu Chin Chow). Since opening night in 1952, more than 2,000,000 people have...
A great many writers nowadays are hung up on the psychological-fantasy novel. Their common theme is not so much alienated man as the phenomenon of what might be called the polyperse-the several conflicting personalities in a single character. Unafraid, Virginia Woolf was one of the pioneers of the...
The libretto's demands are preposterous enough: the theme derives from the ethics and rituals of Freemasonry as practiced in ancient Egypt. But Chagall's temple scenes, peopled with a host of priests clothed in garish colors, came off as something resembling a psychedelic initiation rite at the...